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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 20

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1125 PM EST Sat Jan 11 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern North Carolina

  Southeast Virginia



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 1125 PM

  until 500 AM EST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A broken line of fast-moving storms will continue to race

east-northeastward into the overnight and pose mainly a damaging

wind threat.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

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

of Richmond VA to 20 miles east southeast 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 17...WW 18...WW 19...



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

0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

23045.



...Guyer

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