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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 418

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

320 PM CDT Fri Jun 21 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Arkansas

  Southern Illinois

  Southern Indiana

  Western and Central Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri

  Northwest Tennessee



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 320 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Multiple lines of intense thunderstorms will track

southeastward across the watch area this afternoon and evening,

posing a risk of damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 15 miles southwest of

Poplar Bluff MO to 40 miles northeast of Bowling Green KY. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Severe Thunderstorm Watch means conditions are

favorable for 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. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce

tornadoes.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 415...WW 416...WW 417...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

29035.



...Hart

