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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 443

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 PM CDT Tue Jun 25 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Illinois

  Northern Indiana

  Southwest Lower Michigan

  Southeast Wisconsin

  Lake Michigan



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 155 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A fast moving cluster of thunderstorms will track across

the watch area this afternoon, posing a risk of damaging wind gusts

and hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

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

Rockford IL to 20 miles north northeast of Kalamazoo MI. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Hart

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