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SEL3 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. && 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