SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 488
SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 488
[html]WW 488 SEVERE TSTM IN OH LE 231110Z - 231800Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 488
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
710 AM EDT Sat Jul 23 2022
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northern Indiana
Northwestern to central Ohio
Lake Erie
* Effective this Saturday morning and afternoon from 710 AM until
200 PM EDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
SUMMARY...An increasingly organized co*plex of severe thunderstorms
will move into a destabilizing air mass across parts of northern
Indiana and Ohio the remainder of this morning into early afternoon,
offering mainly damaging/severe gusts. Isolated large hail is
possible, and a line-embedded tornado cannot be ruled out.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles either side of a line from 45 miles south southwest of
South Bend IN to 45 miles east southeast of Findlay OH. For a
co*plete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
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 487...
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
29035.
...Edwards
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Source: SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 488 (http://ht**://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0488.html)