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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 68

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

450 PM CDT Mon Apr 1 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of 

  Central Illinois

  Eastern Missouri



* Effective this Monday afternoon from 450 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will intensify this afternoon and evening,

building eastward along a boundary across central Missouri/Illinois.

 Supercells capable of large hail, damaging winds, and a few

tornadoes are possible.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

north and south of a line from 40 miles southwest of Jefferson City

MO to 35 miles south of Danville IL. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 64...WW 65...WW 66...WW

67...



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

surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 25030.



...Hart