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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 315

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1255 PM EDT Sun Jun 2 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  District Of Columbia

  Western and Central Maryland

  Southeast Ohio

  Northern Virginia

  West Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 1255 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Multiple rounds of thunderstorms are expected to develop

this afternoon across the watch area, spreading eastward through the

afternoon.  The strongest cells in this region will pose a risk of

damaging wind gusts and hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles west northwest

of Charleston WV to 30 miles north northeast of Patuxent River MD.

For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch

outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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

27030.



...Hart

