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   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 608
   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
   1140 PM CDT TUE JUL 5 2005
   
   THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A
   TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 
   
          EXTREME SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
          EXTREME SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
          SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
          COASTAL WATERS
   
   EFFECTIVE THIS TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY MORNING FROM 1140 PM
   UNTIL 800 AM CDT.
   
   TORNADOES...THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH...AND DANGEROUS
   LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.
   
   THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 50 STATUTE MILES
   NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 55 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF GULFPORT
   MISSISSIPPI TO 45 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF MOBILE ALABAMA.  FOR A
   COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE
   UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
   
   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 607. WATCH NUMBER 607 WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT AFTER
   1140 PM CDT. 
   
   DISCUSSION...TROPICAL STORM CINDY WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT NWD ACROSS
   SE LA THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS.  LOCAL WIND PROFILES AND
   RADAR/SATELLITE STRUCTURES OF THE STORM SUGGEST THAT THE THREAT FOR
   EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO WILL BE FOCUSED IN A
   SMALL AREA E OF THE CENTER THROUGH THE MORNING...PRIMARILY ALONG THE
   MS/AL COASTS.
   
   AVIATION...TORNADOES AND A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXTREME
   TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 55 KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI
   WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 550. MEAN STORM MOTION VECTOR 18035.
   
   
   ...THOMPSON