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"textContent": "WW 181 SEVERE TSTM AL LA MS CW 291820Z - 300200Z\n\n\n\n\n URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED\n Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 181\n NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK\n 120 PM CDT Wed Apr 29 2026\n\n The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a\n\n * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of\n Southwest into South-Central Alabama\n Southeast Louisiana\n Central and Southern Mississippi\n Coastal Waters\n\n * Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 120 PM\n until 900 PM CDT.\n\n * Primary threats include...\n Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible\n Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible\n\n SUMMARY...Clusters of thunderstorms are forecast to intensify this\n afternoon and persist into the evening. The stronger thunderstorms\n will be capable of a risk for large hail and damaging wind gusts\n (55-70 mph). This activity will gradually push east-southeastward\n towards the coast by mid evening.\n\n The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90\n statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of\n Natchez MS to 30 miles east northeast of Evergreen AL. For a\n complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline\n update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).\n\n PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...\n\n REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are\n favorable for severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area.\n Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening\n weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible\n warnings. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce\n tornadoes.\n\n &&\n\n OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 180...\n\n AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to\n 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A\n few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector\n 28025.\n\n ...Smith\n\n\n\nRead more",
"title": "SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 181"
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