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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 388

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

205 PM CDT Sun Jun 16 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Illinois

  Southern Indiana

  Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri

  Southwest Ohio



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 205 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Multiple sub-regional corridors of thunderstorms will

continue to intensify across a broad portion of the lower/middle

Ohio River Valley. The most organized storms, potentially including

a few supercells, are expected in areas generally near and north of

the Ohio River including southern portions of Illinois/Indiana/Ohio

and northern Kentucky. This could include a hail and low tornado

risk, with locally damaging winds expected to the most common impact

across the broad region.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles west of Cape

Girardeau MO to 95 miles east southeast of Cincinnati OH. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 387...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

26025.



...Guyer

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