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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 516
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
840 PM CST Wed Dec 23 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of 
  Central and Southern Louisiana
  Southwest Mississippi
  Southeast Texas
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 840 PM
  until 200 AM CST.

* Primary threats include...
  A couple tornadoes possible
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms is intensifying from southeast
Texas into central Louisiana.  These storms will track across the
watch area this evening and tonight, posing a risk of locally
damaging wind gusts and perhaps a tornado or two.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles
east and west of a line from 50 miles south southeast of Lake
Charles LA to 35 miles east northeast of Alexandria LA. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

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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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 23030.

...Hart