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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 422

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1040 PM EDT Fri Jun 21 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  northeast Alabama

  northern Georgia

  western North Carolina

  Upstate South Carolina



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 1040 PM

  until 500 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorm activity is expected to be

maintained into the overnight hours along the southeastward

advancing, leading edge of cool outflow produced by the storms,

which may continue to be accompanied by a risk for potential

damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles west northwest

of Birmingham AL to 40 miles north of Athens GA. 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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 419...WW 420...WW 421...



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

31035.



...Kerr

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