[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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SPC WW 200151
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 288
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
855 PM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  a large portion of Arkansas
  the Missouri bootheel
  parts of northwest Mississippi
  portions of western Tennessee

* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 855 PM
  until 400 AM CDT.

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

SUMMARY...A band of strong/severe storms will continue moving
southeast across Arkansas this evening, posing a risk for primarily
damaging winds.  Other storms ongoing over portions of western
Tennessee and northern Mississippi may also pose a risk for locally
damaging winds and hail over the next few hours.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles west southwest
of Hot Springs AR to 45 miles south southeast of Dyersburg TN. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).

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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 283...WW 285...WW
286...WW 287...

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 600. Mean storm motion vector
30035.

...Goss
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