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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 626
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
910 PM CDT Thu Aug 15 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  North-central and northwestern Illinois

* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 910 PM
  until 300 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Clusters of thunderstorms may organize to severe levels as
they move eastward over the Mississippi River from IA, and into a
favorably moist and unstable air mass.  Damaging gusts are the main
concern, with isolated large hail also possible.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70
statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles south of Peoria
IL to 55 miles north of Peoria IL. For a co*plete depiction of the
watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

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...c*NTINUE...WW 623...WW 624...WW 625...

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 550. Mean storm motion vector
27025.

...Edwards