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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 460

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

645 AM CDT Sat Jun 29 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and eastern North Dakota



* Effective this Saturday morning and afternoon from 645 AM until

  200 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...An increasingly organized complex of thunderstorms that

produced measured severe gusts near Minot may continue to pose a

risk of damaging winds, along with isolated hail, as it moves across

the watch area through midday.  See SPC mesoscale discussion 1296

for initial meteorological details.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 80 miles west northwest

of Devils Lake ND to 25 miles south southeast of Grand Forks ND. 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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

28035.



...Edwards

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