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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 374
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
325 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF 
  SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA
  EASTERN KENTUCKY
  SOUTHWESTERN AND CENTRAL OHIO
  WESTERN WEST VIRGINIA

* EFFECTIVE THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FROM 325 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT
  EDT.

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...
  NUMEROUS DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH EXPECTED
  SEVERAL LARGE HAIL EVENTS TO 1.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER POSSIBLE
  A FEW TORNADOES POSSIBLE

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 60
STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 35 MILES EAST
NORTHEAST OF DAYTON OHIO TO 35 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF LONDON
KENTUCKY.  FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE THE
ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 372...WW 373...

DISCUSSION...A SEVERE MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM...NOW IN ITS
FORMATIVE STAGES TO THE NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...APPEARS LIKELY TO
GROW UPSCALE...WITH DEVELOPMENT SOUTHWARD THROUGH WESTERN AND
CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AND EASTWARD TOWARD THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  CONSOLIDATING AND DEEPENING OF COLD
POOLS...ACCOMPANIED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REAR INFLOW JET...LIKELY
WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY INCREASINGLY WIDESPREAD POTENTIALLY DAMAGING
WIND GUSTS ACROSS EASTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST THROUGH CENTRAL
OHIO AS CONVECTION PROPAGATES EASTWARD.

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 27035.


...KERR