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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 118

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1235 PM CDT Wed Apr 28 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Illinois

  Western Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 1235 PM

  until 800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A long-lived cluster of thunderstorms over south-central

Missouri will track eastward across the watch area, while new storms

intensify ahead of it.  Damaging winds and hail are the primary

threats, although a tornado or two cannot be ruled out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

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

of Poplar Bluff MO to 40 miles south southeast of Owensboro 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 117...



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

26030.



...Hart

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