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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 169

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

355 PM EDT Sun Jun 10 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Illinois

  Central and southern Indiana



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 355 PM until

  900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Line of storms producing strong to isolated severe wind

gusts should spread southeast from parts of central and southern

Illinois into central and southern Indiana through early evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles either side of a line from 20 miles southwest of Terre

Haute IN to 50 miles east southeast of Bloomington IN. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 168...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

31035.



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