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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 128

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1150 AM CDT Mon May 3 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Alabama

  Eastern Mississippi



* Effective this Monday morning and evening from 1150 AM until

  800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are expected to be focused in two

corridors of confluence across east-central to central Alabama and

farther south in southern Alabama. Damaging winds and large hail are

the primary threats.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 105

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles northwest of

Birmingham AL to 40 miles south southeast of Evergreen AL. 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 127...



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

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

27025.



...Grams

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