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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 560

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 PM EDT Wed Aug 7 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  District Of Columbia

  eastern Maryland

  central and eastern North Carolina

  northern and eastern Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 155 PM

  until 800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Strong/locally severe storms will continue to develop and

spread eastward across the Mid-Atlantic region and North Carolina

this afternoon.  Locally damaging winds will be the main risk,

through early evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles northwest of

Dover DE to 40 miles southwest of Goldsboro NC. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 559...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Goss

