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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 496

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

550 PM CDT Sat Sep 26 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western Upper Michigan

  Northern Wisconsin

  Lake Michigan



* Effective this Saturday afternoon from 550 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...Scattered intense thunderstorms will occur this afternoon

and evening across the watch area, with the strongest cells capable

of large hail and perhaps damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles southwest of

Kennedy WI to 30 miles northeast of Escanaba MI. 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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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Hart

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