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Tornado Watch 95
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   SEL5
   
   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 95
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   320 AM CST TUE MAR 4 2008
   
   THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 
   
          SOUTHERN ALABAMA
          WESTERN AND CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE
          SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
          COASTAL WATERS
   
   EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY MORNING FROM 320 AM UNTIL NOON CST.
   
   TORNADOES...HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS
   TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
   
   THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 110 STATUTE
   MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
   DOTHAN ALABAMA TO 55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA.  FOR
   A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
   OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).
   
   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 93. WATCH NUMBER 93 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER 320
   AM CST. CONTINUE...WW 94...
   
   DISCUSSION...BROKEN SQLN ALONG COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH EJECTING
   AR UPR LOW/TROUGH EXPECTED TO CONTINUE STEADILY EWD...WHILE EMBEDDED
   STORMS MOVE RAPIDLY NNE WITHIN IT.  LOW-LEVEL MOISTURE RETURN HAS
   INCREASED APPRECIABLY IN THE LAST FEW HOURS ALONG THE ERN GULF CST. 
   SFC OBSERVATIONS/VWP DATA SUGGEST THAT MOISTURE SHOULD CONTINUE TO
   SPREAD N INTO SE AL AND SW GA AHEAD OF SQLN LATER THIS MORNING...TO
   A DEGREE SUPPORTIVE OF SUSTAINED STORMS.  OTHER STORMS MAY FORM IN
   CONFLUENCE LINE AHEAD OF SQLN...OVER CNTRL PARTS OF THE FL PANHANDLE
   INTO SE AL.  STRENGTH OF WIND FIELD AND SLIGHTLY BACKED NEAR-SFC
   FLOW SUGGEST POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES...IN ADDITION TO
   NARROW SWATHS OF DMGG WIND/MARGINALLY SVR HAIL.
   
   AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
   SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND
   GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450.
   MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 21045.
   
   
   ...CORFIDI
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