[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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Wed Aug 9 13:50:53 CDT 2023


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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 617
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
150 PM CDT Wed Aug 9 2023

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Northern Alabama
  Northeast Mississippi
  Middle Tennessee

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 150 PM
  until 800 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph likely
  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Storms are expected to increase and intensify along a warm
front/instability gradient across the region, with wind profiles
supportive of a few supercells and bowing segments.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles west northwest
of Muscle Shoals AL to 50 miles north northeast of Gadsden AL. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

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
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
28025.

...Guyer
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