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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 278

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

525 PM EDT Wed Jun 10 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Kentucky



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 525 PM

  until 1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are forming along a cold front

moving eastward across central Kentucky.  Some increase in storm

coverage/intensity is expected in the next few hours, and the

stronger storms will be capable of producing damaging winds and

isolated large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles north of Jackson

KY to 20 miles south southeast of London KY. 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 275...WW 276...WW 277...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

24035.



...Thompson

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