URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 276
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
135 PM CDT Sat May 27 2017
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southern Illinois
Southern Indiana
Western and Central Kentucky
Southeast Missouri
Northern Tennessee
* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 135 PM until
900 PM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Widespread damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
to 80 mph possible
Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events
to 2.5 inches in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are forming across the watch area
this afternoon, while other and more intense storms move in from
Missouri. Large hail and damaging winds are possible with the
biggest storms. The risk of widespread damaging winds will develop
later today over parts of the area.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85
statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west of Cape
Girardeau MO to 15 miles north of London KY. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).
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.
IN TENNESSEE THIS WATCH INCLUDES 19 COUNTIES
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
CHEATHAM CLAY DAVIDSON
DICKSON FENTRESS HOUSTON
HUMPHREYS JACKSON MACON
MONTGOMERY OVERTON PICKETT
PUTNAM ROBERTSON SMITH
STEWART SUMNER TROUSDALE
WILSON
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLARDT, ASHLAND CITY, BYRDSTOWN,
CARTHAGE, CELINA, CLARKSVILLE, COOKEVILLE, DICKSON, DOVER, ERIN,
GAINESBORO, GALLATIN, GOODLETTSVILLE, GORDONSVILLE, HARTSVILLE,
HENDERSONVILLE, JAMESTOWN, KINGSTON SPRINGS, LAFAYETTE, LEBANON,
LIVINGSTON, MCEWEN, MOUNT JULIET, NASHVILLE, NEW JOHNSONVILLE,
PEGRAM, SOUTH CARTHAGE, SPRINGFIELD, TENNESSEE RIDGE,
AND WAVERLY.
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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 275...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27035.
...Hart