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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 129

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

635 PM CDT Thu Apr 18 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Southern Illinois

  Southwest Indiana

  Western Kentucky

  Southeast Missouri



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 635 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Severe storms will continue to steadily move eastward

across the region, initially across southern Illinois and southeast

Missouri, reaching southwest Indiana/western Kentucky by mid to late

evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles south southwest

of Paducah KY to 5 miles east northeast of Terre Haute IN. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 125...WW 126...WW

127...WW 128...



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.



...Guyer