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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 168

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1100 PM CDT Wed Apr 26 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  West central and central Alabama



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 1100

  PM until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Squall line in Mississippi will continue to move eastward

overnight into Alabama.  A few of the embedded bowing segments will

continue to pose a threat for damaging gusts, and perhaps marginally

severe hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

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

Birmingham AL to 60 miles south of Tuscaloosa AL. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 166...WW 167...



AVIATION...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

25045.



...Thompson

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