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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 576

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

125 PM EDT Tue Aug 13 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Far northeast Georgia

  Western North Carolina

  Far northwest South Carolina

  Far eastern Tennessee

  Southwest Virginia



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 125 PM until

  700 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...A line of strong to locally severe storms across southwest

Virginia and eastern Tennessee may intensify after it crosses the

crest of the southern Appalachians, with additional clusters

possibly developing downstream through the afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90

statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles west southwest

of Greenville SC to 60 miles northwest of Danville VA. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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.



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

27025.



...Grams

