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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 391

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

125 PM EDT Tue Jul 21 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  North Central Indiana



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon from 125 PM until 500 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A bowing cluster of thunderstorms will track

east-northeastward across the watch area this afternoon.  Locally

damaging winds are possible along the leading edge of the storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

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

of Lafayette IN to 80 miles east of Lafayette IN. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Hart

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