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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 216

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

300 AM EDT Thu May 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and northern Indiana



* Effective this Thursday morning from 300 AM until 1000 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A bowing complex of thunderstorms, with a history of

severe measured gusts in Illinois, is forecast to pose a continued

damaging-wind threat across the watch area before penetrating too

much stable air to sustain it.  Severe wind is the main threat,

though a brief tornado cannot be ruled out, especially over

southwestern parts of the watch near a warm front.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles east of Terre

Haute IN to 15 miles east northeast of South Bend IN. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 214...WW 215...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

24050.



...Edwards

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