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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 181

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

820 PM CDT Wed May 13 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Oklahoma



* Effective this Wednesday night from 820 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A bowing cluster of thunderstorms over west-central

Oklahoma will track east-northeastward this evening, continue to

pose a risk of locally damaging wind gusts and hail for the next few

hours.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles north northwest

of Enid OK to 25 miles southeast of Fort Sill OK. 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 179...WW 180...



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

25030.



...Hart

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