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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 161

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1025 PM CDT Thu May 9 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Louisiana

  Southeast Texas

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1025 PM

  until 300 AM 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...Thunderstorms will spread eastward across the watch area

during the next few hours.  Large hail will be possible in the more

isolated storms, with damaging winds possible in the larger

clusters.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles west northwest

of Port Arthur TX to 50 miles east southeast of Lake Charles LA. For

a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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 158...WW 159...WW 160...



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

26035.



...Hart

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