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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 298

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

315 PM EDT Mon May 29 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and Northeast Georgia

  South Central North Carolina

  Much of South Carolina



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 315 PM until

  900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms developing over Georgia will spread eastward

across the watch area this afternoon and early evening, posing a

risk of locally damaging wind gusts and hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles south

southwest of Atlanta GA to 55 miles northeast of Columbia SC. 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.



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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

26025.



...Hart

