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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 168

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

355 PM EDT Tue May 5 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern North Carolina

  Northern South Carolina



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 355 PM until

  1100 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

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A cluster of thunderstorms over western North Carolina

will track eastward along a warm front, affecting the watch area

this afternoon and evening.  Locally damaging wind gusts and hail

are possible in the strongest cells.  An isolated tornado is also

possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles northwest of

Anderson SC to 45 miles east of Fayetteville NC. 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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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

27035.



...Hart

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