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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 280

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

525 PM CDT Tue May 28 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Iowa

  West Central Illinois

  Northeast Missouri



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon from 525 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* 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 likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will spread eastward across the watch area

this evening, posing a risk of large hail and damaging winds in the

strongest cells.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles north and south of a line from 60 miles west of

Burlington IA to 45 miles north northeast of Peoria IL. 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 273...WW 274...WW

275...WW 276...WW 277...WW 278...WW 279...



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

24035.



...Hart

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