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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 238

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

855 PM CDT Thu Jun 28 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western and middle Tennessee



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 855 PM

  until 100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Although the persistent severe MCS over western KY and

southeastern MO is expected to weaken with time as it moves into

progressively more-stable air in TN, it still may offer damaging

convective gusts into the new watch area in the meantime.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 35

statute miles either side of a line from 45 miles southwest of

Jackson TN to 110 miles east northeast of Jackson TN. 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 234...WW 235...WW

236...WW 237...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

34045.



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