URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 655
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
235 AM EDT Sat Sep 5 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northeast Indiana
  Northwest into North-Central Ohio

* Effective this Saturday morning from 235 AM until 800 AM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected tonight from
northeast Indiana into northwest/north-central Ohio. A few instances
of large hail are possible, but the primary severe risk is expected
to be damaging wind gusts.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west northwest
of Fort Wayne IN to 65 miles east southeast of Findlay OH. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).

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
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
30030.

...Mosier