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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 292

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 PM EDT Sun May 28 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Indiana

  Southern Lower Michigan

  Northern Ohio

  Northwest Pennsylvania

  Lake Erie



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 155 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are forecast to develop across the

watch area this afternoon, posing a risk of gusty/damaging winds and

hail in the strongest cores.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles southwest of

South Bend IN to 55 miles north northeast of Youngstown OH. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

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

26030.



...Hart

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