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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 22

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

750 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  South Central Kansas

  Western and North-Central Oklahoma

  Eastern Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 750 PM

  until 300 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to intensify rapidly this

evening along a boundary over northwest Oklahoma and the northeast

Texas Panhandle.  Other isolated cells may develop slightly farther

south.  Storms will track northeastward across the watch, posing a

risk of very large hail, damaging winds, and perhaps a tornado or

two.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 90 miles west of

Clinton OK to Ponca City OK. For a complete depiction of the watch

see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

24035.



...Hart

