[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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Wed Feb 12 16:33:00 CST 2020


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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 34
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
435 PM CST Wed Feb 12 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Northern and Central Alabama
  Southern Middle Tennessee

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon from 435 PM until Midnight
  CST.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms over eastern Mississippi will
track eastward across the watch area this afternoon and evening,
posing a risk of locally damaging wind gusts.  A brief tornado
cannot be ruled out in the region as well.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles north of
Huntsville AL to 40 miles south southeast of Tuscaloosa AL. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

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.

&&

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector
24040.

...Hart
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