[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 258
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1055 AM CDT Fri Jun 5 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

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

* Effective this Friday morning and evening from 1055 AM until
  600 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...A cluster of storms in the Missouri Bootheel will likely
continue through the afternoon while moving toward western
Tennessee, northern Mississippi and eastern Arkansas.  Damaging
winds will be the main threat with multicell clusters/line segments,
though isolated large hail may also occur with the strongest
embedded storms.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75
statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles north northwest
of Dyersburg TN to 35 miles south of Oxford MS. 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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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
34025.

...Thompson
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