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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 117

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

320 AM EDT Mon Apr 13 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Parts of north Florida

  Southeast Georgia

  Central and southern South Carolina

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Monday morning from 320 AM until 1100 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely with a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A well-developed, pre-frontal squall line in Georgia and

the Florida Panhandle will continue to move east-northeastward

through the morning.  These storms have a history of producing both

tornadoes and damaging winds, and these threats will continue

through the morning with embedded supercells and bowing segments.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles

east and west of a line from 60 miles north northeast of Columbia SC

to 45 miles east southeast of Tallahassee FL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



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 115...WW 116...



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 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24055.



...Thompson

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