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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 337

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

705 PM CDT Thu Jun 15 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northwest Arkansas

  Southern and eastern Kansas

  Western Missouri

  Northern Oklahoma



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 705 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...An increasingly well organized MCS will continue to

gradually accelerate southeastward this evening across southern

Kansas into western Missouri, northern Oklahoma and possibly

northwest Arkansas. Relatively widespread wind damage is possible

aside from large hail and possibly a line-embedded brief tornado

risk.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles north and south of a line from 70 miles north

northeast of Monett MO to 30 miles west of Medicine Lodge KS. 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 333...WW 334...WW

335...WW 336...



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

3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 650. Mean storm motion vector

33045.



...Guyer

