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SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 562

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 562

[html]WW 562 SEVERE TSTM IL IN KY 300050Z - 300800Z
     
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 562
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
850 PM EDT Mon Jul 29 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Central Illinois
  Central and Southern Indiana
  Northern Kentucky

* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 850 PM
  until 400 AM EDT.

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

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to develop this evening in a
moist and unstable air mass across much of central Illinois and
Indiana.  Those storms will track southeastward across the watch
area.  Locally damaging wind gusts are the main concern.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75
statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles southwest of
Decatur IL to 45 miles northeast of Louisville KY. For a co*plete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

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 561...

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 500. Mean storm motion vector
29030.

...Hart


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Source: SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 562 (http://ht**://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0562.html)