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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 39

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

150 AM CST Wed Mar 4 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Southwestern Alabama

  The western Florida Panhandle

  Parts of northeastern and southeastern Louisiana

  Much of central and southern Mississippi



* Effective this Wednesday morning from 150 AM until 1000 AM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2 inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to increase in coverage and

intensity through the morning hours from Louisiana into Mississippi

and southwestern Alabama, along and north of a stalled front.  The

storms will be more elevated with northward extent, posing mainly a

large hail and damaging wind threat.  Closer to the front, storms

will be rooted near the ground, where a couple of tornadoes will be

possible.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles

north and south of a line from 25 miles west northwest of Natchez MS

to 25 miles north northeast of Crestview FL. 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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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 28040.



...Thompson

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