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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 329

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

145 PM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Indiana

  Northern and Western Ohio

  Lake Erie



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 145 PM

  until 900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to intensify along a weak cold

front, spreading southeastward across the watch area.  Scattered

severe storms are expected, with damaging winds and hail possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 10 miles east northeast

of Youngstown OH to 10 miles west of Terre Haute IN. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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

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

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

28030.



...Hart

