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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 516

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

840 PM CST Wed Dec 23 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Central and Southern Louisiana

  Southwest Mississippi

  Southeast Texas

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 840 PM

  until 200 AM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms is intensifying from southeast

Texas into central Louisiana.  These storms will track across the

watch area this evening and tonight, posing a risk of locally

damaging wind gusts and perhaps a tornado or two.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles

east and west of a line from 50 miles south southeast of Lake

Charles LA to 35 miles east northeast of Alexandria LA. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch

area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for

threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements

and possible warnings.



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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean

storm motion vector 23030.



...Hart

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