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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 76

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

430 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Kansas

  North Central Oklahoma



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon from 430 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail expected with isolated very large hail

    events to 2.5 inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to form late this afternoon

over southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, posing a risk of

damaging hail and locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles south

southwest of Alva OK to 25 miles east northeast of Chanute KS. 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 75...



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

24035.



...Hart

