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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 307

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

330 PM CDT Sat Jun 1 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  West Central Illinois

  Eastern Kansas Kansas

  Central and Northern Missouri



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 330 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter likely

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will increase in coverage and intensity this

afternoon across the watch area, with a few severe clusters

expected.  Damaging wind gusts and large hail are likely in the

strongest storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles south

southwest of Olathe KS to 25 miles east southeast of Springfield IL.

For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch

outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 303...WW 304...WW

305...WW 306...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

29035.



...Hart

