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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 202

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

120 PM EDT Fri May 22 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Georgia

  Western North Carolina

  Northern and Central South Carolina



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 120 PM until

  800 PM 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



SUMMARY...A line of thunderstorms over western North Carolina and

northeast Georgia will track eastward across the watch area this

afternoon and intensify.  Damaging wind gusts along the leading edge

of the storms, as well and some hail, are the primary risks.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles north

northwest of Athens GA to 45 miles east southeast of Charlotte NC.

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

2 inches. 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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