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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 683
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
640 AM EDT Thu Sep 26 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of
  Florida Peninsula
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Thursday morning and evening from 640 AM until
  800 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Several tornadoes likely

SUMMARY...In association with a strengthening Hurricane Helene,
conditions will become increasingly favorable for tornadoes today
across portions of the Florida Peninsula, in the presence of a very
moist air mass and strengthening low-level shear.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles
east and west of a line from 20 miles northeast of Ocala FL to 55
miles west southwest of Miami FL. For a complete depiction of the
watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).

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 0 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean
storm motion vector 16050.

...Guyer