WW 50 SEVERE TSTM OH WV 150310Z – 150700Z
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