URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 166 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 455 PM CDT Wed Apr 26 2017 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of East central and northeast Arkansas The Missouri Bootheel Northern Mississippi Western Tennessee * Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 455 PM until 1100 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...Squall line in Arkansas will likely persist through the evening hours while moving eastward into western Tennessee and Mississippi. Damaging winds with embedded bowing segments will be the main severe threat. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast of Dyersburg TN to 55 miles west southwest of Oxford MS. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6). 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. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 162...WW 163...WW 164... 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 500. Mean storm motion vector 26040. ...ThompsonRead more
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