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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 538

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1025 PM CDT Tue Oct 26 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  South Central Kansas

  Central Oklahoma



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 1025 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Lines of strong to severe thunderstorms will track across

the watch area overnight, with the potential for damaging winds and

hail in the strongest cells.  An isolated tornado spin-up or two is

also possible along the leading edge of these storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles northeast of

Hutchinson KS to 30 miles west southwest of Durant OK. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 536...WW 537...



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

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A

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

24040.



...Hart

