Tornado Watch 37

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 37
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
310 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
EASTERN ARKANSAS
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
SOUTHWEST INDIANA
WESTERN KENTUCKY
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
WESTERN TENNESSEE
EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY AFTERNOON FROM 310 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST.
..THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...
DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2 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 85 STATUTE
MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES NORTH OF CAPE
GIRARDEAU MISSOURI TO 25 MILES EAST OF JACKSON MISSISSIPPI. FOR
A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH
OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).
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...CONTINUE...WW 34...WW 35...WW 36...
DISCUSSION...COMPLEX SITUATION EVOLVING THIS AFTERNOON WITH
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE OPEN WARM SECTOR FROM MS
NWD INTO WRN TN/KY. ADDITIONAL SEVERE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO NW MS
FROM AR/LA...AND INTO TN/KY/IL/INDIANA FROM THE W BY EARLY TONIGHT
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PRIMARY SYNOPTIC SYSTEM NOW LOCATED FARTHER
TO THE W. MODERATE INSTABILITY AND BOUNDARY LAYER DEWPOINTS IN THE
60S COVER A WIDE AREA...WHILE LOCAL VWP/S AND FORECAST SOUNDINGS
SHOW STRONG VERTICAL SHEAR OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE WARM SECTOR.
THE NET RESULT WILL BE A THREAT FOR SCATTERED TORNADIC SUPERCELLS
THROUGH THE AFTERNOON...FOLLOWED BY SUPERCELLS/BOW ECHOES WITH THE
LATER CONVECTION TONIGHT. A FEW STRONG TORNADOES AND LARGE HAIL
WILL BE THE MAIN SEVERE THREATS THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE THE DAMAGING
WIND THREAT WILL INCREASE AS WELL INTO TONIGHT AS THE MORE
WIDESPREAD CONVECTION MOVES E OF THE MS RIVER.
AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL
SURFACE AND ALOFT TO 2 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE
WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO
450. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 23050.
..THOMPSON
Tornado watch 37 is in effect until 1200 am cst for the following locations
Ms .,
Mississippi Counties Included Are:
Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay,
Coahoma,
Desoto, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Lafayette,
Leake,
Lee, Leflore, Lowndes, Madison, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Neshoba,
Noxubee, Oktibbeha,
Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Sunflower,
Tallahatchie,
Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Warren, Washington, Webster,
Winston, Yalobusha,
Yazoo.