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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 338

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1245 PM CDT Fri Jun 16 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme Eastern Arkansas

  Northeast Louisiana

  Much of Mississippi

  Southwest Tennessee



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 1245 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will increase in coverage and intensity this

afternoon over the watch area, posing a risk of locally damaging

wind gusts and some hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles northeast of

Memphis TN to 55 miles east southeast of Natchez MS. 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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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

29030.



...Hart

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