Severe Thunderstorm Watch 4/14/2025

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.