Severe Thunderstorm Watch

[nWo]

 

 

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 430
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   630 PM CDT Mon Aug 10 2020

   The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
     Southern Illinois
     Southern Indiana
     Northern and western Kentucky
     Southeastern Missouri

   * Effective this Monday night from 630 PM until Midnight CDT.

   * Primary threats include...
     Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
     Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

   SUMMARY...An extensive line of thunderstorms with a history of
   damaging winds will continue to move southeastward through late
   evening and early tonight.  The storm environment should remain
   favorable for occasional downbursts with damaging outflow in the
   line of storms.

   The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
   statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles west of Cape
   Girardeau MO to 60 miles north northeast of Louisville KY. 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.

 

[nkypete]

I have never heard of the word "derecho" until today.

Derecho - a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds.

[TheDeuce]

1 hour ago, nkypete said:

I have never heard of the word "derecho" until today.

Derecho - a line of intense, widespread, and fast-moving windstorms and sometimes thunderstorms that moves across a great distance and is characterized by damaging winds.

112 mph winds recorded earlier in Iowa.

[nkypete]

9 hours ago, TheDeuce said:

112 mph winds recorded earlier in Iowa.

That is insane.  I guess the storm fell apart by the time it got to our area.