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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 39

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

750 AM EDT Thu Mar 18 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  The eastern Florida Panhandle and Big Bend

  Southwest and south central Georgia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday morning and afternoon from 750 AM until

  100 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Clusters of thunderstorms with embedded rotation will

likely persist for the next few hours from the Florida Panhandle

into southwest Georgia, with the potential to produce a few

tornadoes and damaging winds.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

east and west of a line from 85 miles northeast of Albany GA to 10

miles southeast of Apalachicola 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 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

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

storm motion vector 24040.



...Thompson

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