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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 355

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

245 PM CDT Fri Jun 14 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Colorado

  Western Kansas

  the Oklahoma Panhandle

  the Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 245 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2 inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms spreading off the Colorado Rockies are

expected to intensify late this afternoon, and perhaps evolve into

an organized cluster of storms while progressing east-southeastward

across the central High Plains through 10 PM CDT.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 100

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles north of

Goodland KS to 20 miles south southeast of Guymon OK. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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

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

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

27035.



...Kerr

