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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 334
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
210 PM EDT Mon May 27 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Southeast Alabama
  Central and Southern Georgia
  Southern South Carolina
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 210 PM until
  1000 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph likely
  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Scattered severe storms are expected to develop, initially
this afternoon near a remnant boundary across central/south-central
Georgia, eastward into southern South Carolina as well as southeast
Alabama.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles north and south of a line from 5 miles southwest of
Troy AL to 25 miles south southeast of Charleston SC. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

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 333...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27025.

...Guyer