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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 37

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

100 AM CST Tue Mar 3 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Arkansas

  The southern Missouri Bootheel

  Extreme northern Mississippi

  Western Tennessee



* Effective this Tuesday morning from 100 AM until 500 AM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Broken bands of thunderstorms will continue to develop

along a cold front that will move eastward from Arkansas to northern

Mississippi and western Tennessee through the early morning hours.

The storm environment will favor a mix of supercells and bowing

segments capable of producing large hail, isolated damaging gusts,

and perhaps an isolated tornado.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles south

southwest of Jonesboro AR to 50 miles east of Jackson TN. 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...This severe thunderstorm watch replaces

tornado watch number 35. Watch number 35 will not be in effect

after 100 AM CST. CONTINUE...WW 36...



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

26040.



...Thompson

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