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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 50

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1110 PM EDT Thu Mar 14 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Southeast Ohio

  Northern West Virginia



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1110 PM

  until 300 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Scattered fast-moving storms over Ohio will track eastward

across northern West Virginia during the next few hours, posing some

risk of hail and locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of Athens

OH to 55 miles east southeast of Parkersburg WV. For a complete

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...CONTINUE...WW 44...WW 45...WW 46...WW

47...WW 48...WW 49...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Hart