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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 249

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1255 PM EDT Thu Jun 4 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Ohio

  Western Pennsylvania

  Northern West Virginia Panhandle



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 1255 PM

  until 800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Clusters of strong to locally severe storms will likely

progress east-northeast across the Upper Ohio Valley region this

afternoon offering a risk for mainly damaging wind along with

isolated severe hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west of

Zanesville OH to 30 miles north northeast of Latrobe PA. 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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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

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

25025.



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