WATCHES: Tornado Watch Number 595...resent

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 595...RESENT
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
350 PM CDT WED AUG 29 2012

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF

FAR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
COASTAL WATERS

EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FROM 350 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

TORNADOES...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 80 STATUTE
MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES NORTH NORTHWEST OF
BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA TO 35 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE
ALABAMA. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).

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...THIS TORNADO WATCH REPLACES TORNADO
WATCH NUMBER 594. WATCH NUMBER 594 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER
350 PM CDT.

DISCUSSION...CONVECTIVE BANDS TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST OF TS ISAAC ARE
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE LIFTING NWD/NWWD FROM THE ADJACENT GULF COASTAL
WATERS INTO SERN LA/SRN MS AND SWRN AL INTO THE EVENING. VAD WIND
PROFILES AT KLIX/KMOB/KDGX SHOW 50-70 KT LOW LEVEL WINDS...VERY
STRONG LOW LEVEL SHEAR IN THE LOWEST 1 KM...AND 150-300 M2/S2 SRH
BASED ON OBSERVED STORM MOTIONS. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH RADAR
OBSERVATIONS OF SHALLOW/BRIEF SUPERCELLS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE
CONVECTIVE BANDS WHICH WILL MAINTAIN A THREAT FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES
INTO TONIGHT AS ISAAC MOVES SLOWLY NWWD ACROSS SRN LA.

AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREME
TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI
WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 15050.


...WEISS

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