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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 150

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

555 PM CDT Sat Apr 27 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of 

  Eastern Iowa

  Northwest Illinois

  Northeast Missouri

  Southwest Wisconsin



* Effective this Saturday afternoon from 555 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will gradually develop this evening and

spread into the Watch area.  Large hail, damaging gusts, and a few

tornadoes are possible with the stronger supercells and embedded

thunderstorm clusters.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 75 statute miles

north and south of a line from 65 miles west of Burlington IA to 55

miles east southeast of Dubuque IA. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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 145...WW 146...WW

147...WW 148...WW 149...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and 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 24035.



...Smith