URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 236
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
350 PM EDT Wed May 20 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Eastern Kentucky
  Southern Ohio
  Extreme Southwest Virginia
  Central and Southern West Virginia

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 350 PM
  until 900 PM EDT.

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

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms over Kentucky will track eastward in a
warm/unstable air mass, with the strongest storms posing some risk
of damaging wind gusts through the afternoon/evening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45
statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles southwest of
Jackson KY to 15 miles east northeast of Elkins WV. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

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 234...WW 235...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27030.

...Hart