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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 389

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

845 PM EDT Tue Sep 25 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Indiana

  Southern Lower Michigan

  Northwest Ohio



* Effective this Tuesday night from 845 PM until Midnight EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of storms over northwest Indiana and southwest

Lower Michigan will track eastward across the watch area this

evening, posing a risk of locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles east southeast

of Jackson MI to 40 miles southwest of South Bend 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 388...



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

25035.



...Hart

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