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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 496

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

950 PM MDT Sat Jul 6 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme northeast Colorado

  Western Nebraska



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 950 PM

  until 400 AM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A line of severe thunderstorms will move rapidly east

across the watch area through early morning with damaging winds

likely and isolated reports of large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 95 miles west northwest

of North Platte NE to 20 miles east northeast of North Platte NE.

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.



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

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

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

27035.



...Bunting

