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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 197

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1050 AM CDT Fri Jun 22 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme southern Arkansas

  Northern Louisiana

  West central Mississippi



* Effective this Friday morning and evening from 1050 AM until

  700 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms ongoing across northeastern Louisiana will

likely persist through the afternoon while moving east-southeastward

into west central Mississippi with an accompanying threat for

damaging winds and large hail.  Other storm development is expected

westward across southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana through the

afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles southwest of

El Dorado AR to 40 miles east southeast of Jackson 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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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 550. Mean storm motion vector

29035.



...Thompson

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