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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 69

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

335 AM CST Tue Mar 7 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern and eastern Arkansas

  Northern Louisiana

  Missouri Bootheel

  Northern Mississippi

  Western Tennessee



* Effective this Tuesday morning from 335 AM until NOON CST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A band of thunderstorms is forecast to move southeastward

into and across the watch area this morning, with embedded storms

moving rapidly east-northeastward.  This activity will offer

primarily a risk of damaging gusts.  Isolated, marginally severe

hail and a tornado cannot be ruled out.  Please see SPC mesoscale

discussion 270 for initial meteorological details.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles either side of a line from 30 miles west southwest of

El Dorado AR to 35 miles northeast of Tupelo MS. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 67...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



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