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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 280

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

620 PM EDT Fri Jun 18 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Indiana



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 620 PM

  until 200 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...The potential for storm development should increase

through early/mid evening along a boundary that extends across

central Indiana. Given the degree of moisture and instability, rapid

intensification and severe storm development could quickly occur,

including some supercells capable of large hail and damaging winds.

While storms may remain widely scattered this evening, an additional

and more widespread secondary round of severe storms could move into

the region late tonight.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

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

of Muncie IN to 15 miles west southwest of Terre Haute IN. 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 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 600. Mean storm motion vector

30020.



...Guyer

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