[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

Wed Apr 26 17:00:19 CDT 2017

WWUS20 KWNS 262159
SEL6
SPC WW 262159
ARZ000-MOZ000-MSZ000-TNZ000-270400-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 166
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
455 PM CDT Wed Apr 26 2017

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  East central and northeast Arkansas
  The Missouri Bootheel
  Northern Mississippi
  Western Tennessee

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 455 PM
  until 1100 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Squall line in Arkansas will likely persist through the
evening hours while moving eastward into western Tennessee and
Mississippi.  Damaging winds with embedded bowing segments will be
the main severe threat.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast
of Dyersburg TN to 55 miles west southwest of Oxford MS. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 162...WW 163...WW 164...

AVIATION...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
26040.

...Thompson
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