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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 409

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

150 PM EDT Thu Jun 20 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central North Carolina

  Central and Eastern Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 150 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will organize over central North Carolina

and spread eastward across the watch area this afternoon and

evening.  Damaging winds are expected with the strongest cells,

along with some risk of hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles southwest of

Fayetteville NC to 40 miles north northwest of Richmond VA. 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 408...



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

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

27030.



...Hart

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