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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 354
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
220 PM EDT Mon Jun 13 2022

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Eastern Illinois
  Indiana
  Northern Kentucky
  West and Southwest Ohio

* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 220 PM until
  1000 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
    to 75 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A very moist and extremely unstable air mass exists across
the region, which will support the potential for intense storm
development. Storms will likely continue to develop initially this
afternoon across eastern Illinois into central/northern Indiana, but
eventually also across southeast Indiana and west/southwest Ohio and
possibly northern Kentucky. Damaging winds and hail are the primary
hazards.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95
statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles north northeast
of Lafayette IN to 50 miles south southwest of Cincinnati OH. 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.

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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean storm motion vector
29020.

...Guyer