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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 300

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

130 PM EDT Fri May 31 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  North Carolina

  Southern Virginia

  Far southern West Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 130 PM until

  1100 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...Episodic severe storms are expected into this evening with

several cells and multiple clusters spreading east. Damaging winds

are the primary threat, but large hail is possible as well.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 105

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

southwest of Dublin VA to 55 miles east northeast of New Bern 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.



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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

26035.



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