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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 209
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1000 AM CDT Fri May 2 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northwest Alabama
  East Central Arkansas
  Southern Kentucky
  Northern Mississippi
  Western and Middle Tennessee

* Effective this Friday morning and afternoon from 1000 AM until
  500 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
    inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Multiple lines and clusters of thunderstorms will track
across the watch area through the afternoon.  A very moist and
unstable air mass will promote a risk of damaging winds and large
hail in the stronger storms.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70
statute miles north and south of a line from 55 miles southwest of
Memphis TN to 75 miles east southeast of Bowling Green KY. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).

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
2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
25035.

...Hart