URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 510
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
510 PM CDT Tue Jul 21 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Southeast Kentucky
  Northern Tennessee
  Extreme Southwest Virginia
  Southern West Virginia

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon from 510 PM until Midnight
  CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A line of scattered intense thunderstorms over Kentucky
will sag southward into the watch area through the evening. 
Damaging winds are the main concern, but hail and a tornado or two
are also possible.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles north and south of a line from Dyersburg TN to 110
miles east of Jackson 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.

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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 506...WW 507...WW
508...WW 509...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
30025.

...Hart