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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 262

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

240 AM CDT Mon May 27 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Iowa

  Eastern Kansas

  Western Missouri

  Southeast Nebraska



* Effective this Monday morning from 240 AM until 800 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A fast-moving linearly organized band of storms will

continue to accelerate east-northeastward across eastern Kansas and

southeast Nebraska into western Missouri and southwest Iowa

overnight. Wind damage is likely with this line as it races across

the region. Wind damage aside, a line-embedded tornado or two cannot

be entirely ruled out, along with some marginally severe hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles northwest of

Shenandoah IA to 20 miles west southwest of Joplin MO. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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 261...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

24050.



...Guyer

