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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 559

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1225 PM CDT Wed Aug 7 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  northern and eastern Arkansas

  southeast Missouri

  northern Mississippi

  western Tennessee



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 1225 PM

  until 800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are forecast to increase/reintensify across

the Ozarks area, and move southeastward with time toward the mid

Mississippi Valley.  Locally damaging winds will be the main risk,

with hail also possible with a couple of stronger cells.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles either side of a line from 40 miles north northwest of

Harrison AR to 35 miles east northeast of Memphis TN. 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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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 550. Mean storm motion vector

30040.



...Goss

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