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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 553

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

145 PM CDT Mon Aug 5 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  upper Michigan

  southern Minnesota

  central and northern Wisconsin

  Lake Michigan

  Lake Superior



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 145 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Storms are expected to continue developing this afternoon

into the evening with damaging wind and large hail the main threats.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles north and south of a line from 15 miles southeast of

Escanaba MI to 20 miles northwest of Fairmont MN. 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

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

29035.



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