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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 56

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  West-central and Northern Georgia

  Western South Carolina



* Effective this Friday morning from 155 AM until 700 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...While the overall severe/tornado risk has somewhat

diminished into the overnight, a residual moist and unstable air

mass coincident with very strong low-level shear could still support

isolated supercells capable of a tornado aside from isolated hail

and damaging winds through the early morning hours.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 40 statute miles

north and south of a line from 15 miles east southeast of Anderson

SC to 5 miles northwest of La Grange GA. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 52...



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 23035.



...Guyer

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