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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 580
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
155 PM EDT Wed Jul 31 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Far Southeast Illinois
  Southern Indiana
  Western and Central Kentucky

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 155 PM
  until 800 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY...A developing cluster of thunderstorms should continue to
strengthen and pose a threat for mainly severe/damaging winds up to
55-70 mph as it moves east-southeastward this afternoon and early
evening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles north of
Evansville IN to 20 miles east northeast of Lexington KY. For a
co*plete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).

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 579...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
30035.

...Gleason