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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 180

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

935 PM CDT Sun May 16 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western North Texas



* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 935 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75

    mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Multiple supercells producing large hail should move

across a portion of western North Texas through midnight,

potentially merging with a longer-lived cluster producing damaging

winds that should spread southeast.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

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

Wichita Falls TX to 105 miles south southwest of Wichita Falls TX.

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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 177...WW 178...WW 179...



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

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

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

30025.



...Grams

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