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SPC Tornado Watch 541

[html]WW 541 TORNADO IA IL IN MI WI LM 152350Z - 160600Z
     

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 541
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
650 PM CDT Mon Jul 15 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of 
  Extreme east central Iowa
  Northern Illinois
  Northwest Indiana
  Southwest Lower Michigan
  Extreme southern Wisconsin
  Lake Michigan

* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 650 PM
  until 100 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  A few tornadoes likely
  Widespread damaging winds and scattered significant gusts to 90
    mph likely
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to evolve into one or more bow
echoes from Iowa into northern Illinois this evening, with the
potential to produce swaths of significant severe gusts up to 75-90
mph and several tornadoes with embedded circulations.  The storms
will spread into northwest Indiana and southwest Lower Michigan
later tonight.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 100 statute miles
east and west of a line from 65 miles northwest of Benton Harbor MI
to 55 miles south southeast of Marseilles IL. For a co*plete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and 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.

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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...c*NTINUE...WW 539...WW 540...

AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail
surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
gusts to 80 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean
storm motion vector 29040.

...Thompson

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Source: SPC Tornado Watch 541 (http://ht**://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0541.html)