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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 45

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

230 PM EDT Mon Apr 8 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme Eastern Georgia

  Central North Carolina

  Central South Carolina

  Southern Virginia



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 230 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* 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...Thunderstorms are intensifying over the western Carolinas

and eastern Georgia, and will spread across the watch area through

the afternoon.  Locally damaging wind gusts and hail are possible in

the more intense storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles east of Augusta

GA to 30 miles east northeast of Lynchburg VA. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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

24030.



...Hart

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