[BNAWX] Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 226
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
400 PM EDT Tue May 16 2023

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Northern North Carolina
  Northeast Tennessee
  Southern Virginia
  Extreme Southern West Virginia

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 400 PM until
  1000 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Isolated discrete cells will pose a risk for severe gusts
and hail late this afternoon. By this evening, a bowing line of
storms is expected to spread east across the watch area, posing a
risk for damaging wind swaths.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 105
statute miles east and west of a line from 20 miles west northwest
of Lynchburg VA to 5 miles south southeast of Hickory NC. 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.

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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 225...

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
26035.

...Leitman
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