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WWUS20 KWNS 180015

SEL9

SPC WW 180015

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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 79

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

715 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Texas



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 715 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to develop and intensify

across the watch area this evening, posing a risk of damaging winds

and large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles northeast of

Junction TX to 55 miles west of Cotulla TX. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU9).



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 75...WW 76...WW 77...WW

78...



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

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

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

25035.



...Hart

