TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 24333 SUBJECT: GRB 190427A: Swift/UVOT Upper Limits DATE: 19/04/28 20:09:21 GMT FROM: Paul Kuin at MSSL N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL) and A. Tohuvavohu (PSU) report on behalf of the Swift/UVOT team: The Swift/UVOT began settled observations of the field of GRB 190427A 3737 s after the BAT trigger (Tohuvavohu et al., GCN Circ. 24261). No optical afterglow consistent with the BAT position (Ukwatta et al., GCN Circ. 24330) is detected in the initial UVOT exposures. Preliminary 3-sigma upper limits using the UVOT photometric system (Breeveld et al. 2011, AIP Conf. Proc. 1358, 373) for the initial exposures are: Filter T_start(s) T_stop(s) Exp(s) Mag u 3737 3936 197 >19.9 The magnitudes in the table are not corrected for the Galactic extinction due to the reddening of E(B-V) = 0.06 in the direction of the burst (Schlegel et al. 1998).