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NWS issues tornado watch

By Bill Moss, Published: May 24, 2017

In addition to flash flood and severe thunderstorm watch, the National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for a wide area that includes Henderson County and all of Western North Carolina.

Here is the weather service statement:

Numerous thunderstorms are expected to develop today. Conditions are favorable for some of these storms to produce severe weather, in the form of damaging winds, large hail, frequent lightning, and very heavy rain. A few of the severe storms will be organized enough to
produce a tornado. The most likely time for any severe weather will be through mid afternoon over the mountains, during the early to mid
afternoon over northeast Georgia, the western upstate of south carolina, and the foothills of North Carolina, and then the mid to late afternoon over the western Piedmont of North Carolina and the Charlotte metro area. The threat for severe weather will end from the
west in the late afternoon and early evening.