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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 261

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1125 PM CDT Sun May 26 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and eastern Kansas

  North-central Oklahoma



* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 1125 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Well-developed bowing squall line should rapidly race

northeast across a large part of Kansas and northern Oklahoma

overnight. Severe wind gusts are the primary hazard, although

embedded significant severe wind and a brief tornado are possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 10 miles east southeast

of Enid OK to 30 miles north northeast of Concordia KS. 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 257...WW 258...WW

259...WW 260...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

23055.



...Grams

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