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WWUS84 KLIX 120025
SPSLIX
LAZ039-040-MSZ077-120130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
725 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2011

...CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHWEST AFFECTING PEARL
RIVER COUNTY...ST. TAMMANY PARISH...WASHINGTON PARISH...

AT 721 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR BOGALUSA...OR ABOUT OVER
BOGALUSA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

THE CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SUN...8 MILES EAST OF ENON AND 9 MILES NORTH
  OF BUSH BY 830 PM...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THESE STORMS ARE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND
GUSTS 35 TO 45 MPH...WHICH COULD DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOW AROUND
UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING
UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID
USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. TRY TO UNPLUG UNNECESSARY
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BEFORE THE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

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