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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 171

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

740 PM CDT Thu May 7 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Kansas

  Western and central Oklahoma

  Northeast Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 740 PM

  until 300 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80

    mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Several supercells will likely develop, initially across

southwest Kansas and then farther south across the northeast Texas

Panhandle into northwest Oklahoma. These severe storms should

consolidate into a broader MCS towards central Oklahoma later

tonight.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95

statute miles east and west of a line from 20 miles east of Clinton

OK to 35 miles northwest of Medicine Lodge 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.



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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 170...



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

3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A

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

30035.



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