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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 167

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

850 PM CDT Wed Apr 26 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Mississippi



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 850 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Squall line will likely persist for several more hours

while moving eastward across central Mississippi.  Damaging winds

with be the main threat, though large hail and an isolated tornado

will be possible with the strongest embedded storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east northeast

of Greenwood MS to 50 miles east southeast of Natchez MS. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are

favorable for 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. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce

tornadoes.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 164...WW 165...WW 166...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Thompson

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