SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 4

WW 4 SEVERE TSTM KY TN VA 070030Z – 070500Z

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 4
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
730 PM EST Thu Feb 6 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Southeast Kentucky
  Northeast Tennessee
  Extreme Southwest Virginia

* Effective this Thursday night from 730 PM until Midnight EST.

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

SUMMARY...Scattered intense storms will track southeastward across
the watch area for the next few hours, capable of hail and damaging
winds.  A tornado or two is also possible.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45
statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles northwest of
Knoxville TN to 30 miles north northeast of Hot Springs NC. 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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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
27030.

...Hart

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