URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 230
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
200 PM EDT Tue May 19 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northeast Indiana
  Southeast Lower Michigan
  Northwest Ohio
  Lake Erie
  Lake Huron

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 200 PM until
  700 PM EDT.

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

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are beginning to develop across
south-central Lower Michigan and northeast Indiana.  This activity
will spread northeastward across the watch area through the
afternoon, posing a risk of locally damaging wind gusts and hail.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles north northeast
of Mount Clemens MI to 40 miles east southeast of Fort Wayne IN. 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.

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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
24035.

...Hart