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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 222

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

440 PM CDT Thu May 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Kentucky

  Western Maryland Panhandle

  Southern Ohio

  Southwest Pennsylvania

  Northern and western West Virginia



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 440 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* 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...Multiple clusters of thunderstorms should develop and

persist east across the Ohio Valley region this evening. Large hail

and damaging winds should be the primary hazards.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

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

southwest of Cincinnati OH to 30 miles east northeast of Morgantown

WV. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 218...WW 219...WW

220...WW 221...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

28035.



...Grams

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