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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 219

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

300 PM EDT Thu May 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Maryland

  Eastern Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 300 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms over northern Virginia will spread eastward

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

risk of locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 35

statute miles north and south of a line from 100 miles west of

Patuxent River MD to 25 miles east of Wallops VA. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 218...



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

29030.



...Hart

