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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 440

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

335 PM EDT Mon Jun 24 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Ohio

  Western Pennsylvania

  Northern West Virginia



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 335 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms over Ohio will track northeastward across

the watch area this afternoon, with an increasing risk of damaging

winds in the strongest cells.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles north

northwest of Zanesville OH to 25 miles northeast of Latrobe PA. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 439...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

24035.



...Hart

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