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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 73

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1240 AM EDT Mon Apr 15 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Eastern Maryland

  Northeast North Carolina

  Southeast Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Monday morning from 1240 AM until 700 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Initial showers and thunderstorms across the Piedmont

vicinity of North Carolina into south-central Virginia should

continue to increase in intensity through the overnight. Very strong

low-level shear/SRH contributes to the potential for a few

supercells and bowing segments capable of damaging winds and some

tornado risk.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 65 statute miles

east and west of a line from 25 miles west northwest of Salisbury MD

to 30 miles south southwest of Rocky Mount NC. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 67...WW 69...WW 71...WW

72...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean

storm motion vector 23040.



...Guyer

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