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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
1205 PM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* SPECIAL MARINE WARNING FOR...
  WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO APALACHICOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM OVER
  GULF OF MEXICO WATERS...
  COASTAL WATERS FROM SUWANNEE RIVER TO KEATON BEACH OUT 20 NM OVER
  GULF OF MEXICO WATERS...
  APALACHEE BAY OR COASTAL WATERS FROM KEATON BEACH TO OCHLOCKONEE
  RIVER FL OUT TO 20 NM OVER GULF OF MEXICO WATERS...
  INCLUDING HORSESHOE BEACH...

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT/230 PM EDT/

* AT 1159 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING STRONG WINDS 34 KNOTS OR GREATER
  FROM 33 NM NORTHWEST OF HORSESHOE BEACH TO 81 NM SOUTHWEST OF      
  HORSESHOE BEACH...MOVING EAST AT 30 KNOTS.

* THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR
  OVER HORSESHOE BEACH BY 220 PM EDT...

BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY AND REMAIN IN PORT UNTIL
THESE THUNDERSTORMS EXIT THE COASTAL WATERS.

COASTAL RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF WATERSPOUTS
MOVING ASHORE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 PM CDT FRIDAY
AFTERNOON/200 PM EDT FRIDAY AFTERNOON/ FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA AND
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 2931 8311 2918 8348 2882 8410 2889 8418
      2882 8428 2874 8444 2887 8487 2965 8383
      2996 8373 2989 8363 2973 8353 2967 8339
      2953 8337 2944 8328 2943 8321 2933 8315
      2934 8310
TIME...MOT...LOC 1704Z 270DEG 29KT 2988 8363 2965 8371
          2892 8467

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12-WATSON