SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 309

WW 309 SEVERE TSTM OH PA LE 270315Z - 271000Z

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 309
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1115 PM EDT Fri Jun 26 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northern Ohio
  Extreme northwestern Pennsylvania
  Lake Erie

* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 1115 PM
  until 600 AM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...A complex of thunderstorms, that has produced several
measured-severe gusts across parts of lower Michigan, northern
Indiana and northeastern Illinois, may maintain a sporadic threat
for severe gusts across the watch area before weakening late
overnight.  Isolated large hail and damaging gusts also are possible
from precursory storms now crossing parts of Lake Erie.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45
statute miles either side of a line from 60 miles southwest of
Findlay OH to 10 miles east southeast of Erie PA. 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 307...WW 308...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
28035.

...Edwards

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