[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 110
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1230 PM CDT Sun May 20 2018

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Northeast and East Central Arkansas
  Extreme Southern Illinois
  Extreme Southwest Indiana
  Western Kentucky
  Southeast Missouri
  Northern Mississippi
  Western Tennessee

* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 1230 PM until
  800 PM CDT.

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

SUMMARY...Storms are increasing as they move southeastward across
southern Illinois and southeast Missouri into northern Arkansas.
These storms will intensify this afternoon with severe wind gusts
and large hail possible.  Other storms will develop in advance of
the boundary over Tennessee and northern Mississippi with a threat
for local damaging winds and hail.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles east northeast
of Carbondale IL to 35 miles southwest of Oxford MS. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).

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
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
27020.

...Weiss
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