Official

SPC Tornado Watch 119

WW 119 TORNADO AR LA MO TN TX 050150Z – 050900Z


URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 119
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
850 PM CDT Fri Apr 4 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of 
  Arkansas
  Northwest Louisiana
  Missouri Bootheel
  Northwest Tennessee
  Northeast Texas

* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 850 PM
  until 400 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes likely
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
    inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...A line of occasionally intense thunderstorms with embedded
supercells will track slowly eastward across the watch area
overnight.  Favorable instability and shear profiles will maintain a
risk of a few tornadoes, along with damaging winds and large hail.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 55 statute miles
east and west of a line from 30 miles south of Longview TX to 40
miles northeast of Walnut Ridge AR. For a complete depiction of the
watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).

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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 113...WW 115...WW 118...

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 500. Mean
storm motion vector 23035.

...Hart

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