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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 708

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

255 PM CST Sun Dec 29 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Northwest Alabama

  Central and Northeast Mississippi



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 255 PM until

  900 PM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...An increasingly organized cluster of thunderstorms over

western Mississippi will track rapidly northeastward across the

watch area this afternoon and evening.  Damaging winds and a few

tornadoes are possible with the more intense cells.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles

east and west of a line from 35 miles east southeast of Natchez MS

to 30 miles northeast of Muscle Shoals AL. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU8).



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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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean

storm motion vector 24050.



...Hart

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