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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 49

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

650 PM CDT Sat Apr 14 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Southern Alabama

  Florida Panhandle

  Far southeast Mississippi

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 650 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Storms are expected to persist and gradually intensify

along composite outflow across the region with a gradual

east/northeastward acceleration this evening. Increasing low-level

shear and the presence of a weak area of low pressure will maintain

long/somewhat curved low-level wind profiles supportive of a

quasi-linear convective mode with embedded supercells/mesovortices

capable of a few tornadoes along with damaging winds.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles

east and west of a line from 40 miles west northwest of Troy AL to

70 miles south of Gulfport MS. For a complete depiction of the watch

see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 48...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24025.



...Guyer

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