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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 47

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

525 PM CDT Thu Mar 14 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of 

  Northeast Arkansas

  Southern Illinois

  Southwest Indiana

  Western Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri

  Northwest Tennessee



* Effective this Thursday afternoon from 525 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A fast-moving line of thunderstorms over southern Missouri

will track eastward through the late afternoon and evening, posing a

risk of damaging winds gusts and hail.  A few tornadoes are also

possible.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles

north and south of a line from 15 miles north northwest of Walnut

Ridge AR to 15 miles east southeast of Owensboro KY. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 42...WW 43...WW 44...WW

45...WW 46...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 26040.



...Hart