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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 258

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1055 AM CDT Fri Jun 5 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast and east central Arkansas

  The Missouri Bootheel

  Northern Mississippi

  Western Tennessee



* Effective this Friday morning and evening from 1055 AM until

  600 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...A cluster of storms in the Missouri Bootheel will likely

continue through the afternoon while moving toward western

Tennessee, northern Mississippi and eastern Arkansas.  Damaging

winds will be the main threat with multicell clusters/line segments,

though isolated large hail may also occur with the strongest

embedded storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles north northwest

of Dyersburg TN to 35 miles south of Oxford 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

34025.



...Thompson

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