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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 158

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1145 AM CDT Sun May 3 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Arkansas

  Extreme Southern Illinois

  Western Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri

  West Tennessee



* Effective this Sunday morning and evening from 1145 AM until

  600 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A fast-moving line of severe thunderstorms over southern

Missouri will track eastward across the watch area this afternoon,

posing a risk of damaging wind gusts and hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles southwest of

West Plains MO to 20 miles southeast of Clarksville 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 157...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

27045.



...Hart

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