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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 506

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

930 PM CDT Sat Oct 21 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Kansas

  Southwest Missouri



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 930 PM

  until 400 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of strong to locally severe thunderstorms will

continue to steadily spread east/northeastward through the late

evening and overnight hours. Isolated damaging winds should be the

primary risk, although a brief line-embedded tornado cannot be ruled

out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 75 miles north northwest

of Springfield MO to 25 miles south southeast of Monett MO. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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 502...WW 503...WW

504...WW 505...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

26040.



...Guyer

