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Tornado Watch 43
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   SEL3
   
   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 43
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   645 PM EST SAT FEB 28 2009
   
   THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 
   
          SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
          NORTHERN FLORIDA AND THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN FLORIDA
   PANHANDLE
   PANHANDLE
   PANHANDLE
   PANHANDLE
   PANHANDLE
          SOUTHERN GEORGIA
          COASTAL WATERS
   
   EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING FROM 645 PM
   UNTIL 300 AM EST.
   
   TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND
   GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
   AREAS.
   
   THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 65 STATUTE
   MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF PANAMA
   CITY FLORIDA TO 25 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF BRUNSWICK GEORGIA. 
   FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
   OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).
   
   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.
   
   OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
   WATCH NUMBER 42. WATCH NUMBER 42 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 645
   PM EST. 
   
   DISCUSSION...BROKEN BAND OF SUSTAINED STORMS...INCLUDING A FEW
   SUPERCELLS...EXPECTED TO PERSIST ACROSS S GA AND NW FL THIS EVE. 
   THE BAND SHOULD DRIFT SLOWLY ESE WHILE STORMS MOVE MORE RAPIDLY E OR
   ENE ALONG IT.  FARTHER NW...ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY FORM ALONG NE/SW
   COLD FRONT NOW MOVING INTO FAR WRN PART OF WW.  POTENTIAL WILL EXIST
   FOR ISOLD TORNADOES...IN ADDITION TO SVR HAIL AND LOCALLY DMGG WIND
   FROM STORMS WITH SMALL SCALE BOWING SEGMENTS.
   DEEP TROPOSPHERIC FLOW SHOULD STRENGTHEN AND BACK LATER
   TONIGHT/EARLY SUN AS AR UPR LOW CONTINUES SE INTO MS LATER TONIGHT. 
   THIS MAY RESULT IN SOME INCREASE IN STORM COVERAGE...AND POSSIBLY
   STRENGTH...OVER MUCH OF WW AREA THROUGH 08Z SUN AND BEYOND,
   
   AVIATION...TORNADOES AND 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
   450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 25035.
   
   
   ...CORFIDI
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