URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 165

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

835 PM EDT Mon Apr 27 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

Southern and Central Indiana

North-Central Kentucky

Far Western Ohio

* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 835 PM

until 400 AM EDT.

* Primary threats include...

Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorms capable of damaging gusts

and isolated hail will continue in the vicinity of the Ohio River

across far southern Indiana and north-central Kentucky.

Additionally, the line of storms approaching Indiana from the west

is expected to continue quickly eastward. Damaging gusts are

possible within this line. There is also a low-probability risk for

a brief tornado within the line as it moves eastward across Indiana

and eventually into far western Ohio.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles northeast of

Lafayette IN to 35 miles southeast of Louisville KY. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 160...WW 161...WW

162...WW 163...WW 164...

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

27035.

...Mosier