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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 160

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

330 PM CDT Thu Jun 7 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western Oklahoma Oklahoma

  Northwest Texas Including the Eastern Panhandle



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 330 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Storms have developed over northwest Texas near an outflow

boundary within a very unstable air mass.  Additional storms may

develop over the eastern Texas Panhandle during the next few hours,

with all activity moving toward western Oklahoma by this evening.

Large hail and strong wind gusts will be the primary threats.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles south southeast

of Childress TX to 15 miles north northwest of Gage OK. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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

27020.



...Weiss

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