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Tornado Watch 144
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Hazard Tornadoes EF2+ Tornadoes
Likelihood Moderate Low
Severe Wind 65 kt+ Wind
Moderate Low
Severe Hail 2"+ Hail
Very Low Very Low

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   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   Tornado Watch Number 144
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   155 AM EDT Fri Apr 24 2020

   The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Tornado Watch for portions of 
     Central and northern Florida
     Coastal Waters

   * Effective this Friday morning from 155 AM until 1100 AM EDT.

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

   SUMMARY...A complex of thunderstorms should move eastward from the
   Gulf across the central/northern peninsula through mid/late morning.
   Bows, line-embedded or bookend mesovortices, and supercells each may
   occur with this activity, offering damaging gusts and some tornado
   threat.

   The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles
   north and south of a line from 50 miles northwest of Saint
   Petersburg FL to 35 miles east southeast of Daytona Beach FL. For a
   complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
   update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

   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.

   &&

   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 550. Mean
   storm motion vector 25035.

   ...Edwards
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