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SEL8 URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 138 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 325 PM EDT Mon Apr 14 2025 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Central and Eastern Kentucky Southern Ohio Far Southwestern Pennsylvania Southwestern Virginia West Virginia * Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 325 PM until 1100 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible A tornado or two possible SUMMARY...Thunderstorms coverage is expected to increase over the next few hours along and ahead of a cold front pushing eastward across the region. Environmental conditions support strong to severe storms. An initially cellular mode will favor large hail and damaging gusts before a transition to a more linear storm mode favors primarily damaging gusts. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80 statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of Lexington KY to 60 miles north northeast of White Sulphur Springs WV. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8). 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. && AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector 24040. ...Mosier