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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 389

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

725 PM EDT Sun Jun 16 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme eastern Kentucky

  Extreme southern Ohio

  Southwestern Virginia

  West Virginia



* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 725 PM

  until 300 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75

    mph possible



SUMMARY...An organizing band of thunderstorms should move generally

eastward into a favorably moist and unstable air mass across the

watch area, offering sporadic damaging to severe winds.  See SPC

mesoscale discussion 1098 for meteorological details.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles southwest of

Huntington WV to 15 miles north northeast of White Sulphur Springs

WV. 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 387...WW 388...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



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