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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 171

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

730 PM CDT Fri May 14 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Kansas



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 730 PM

  until 100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated significant damaging wind gusts to 75 mph possible

  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A couple supercells may evolve southeast across

north-central Kansas through late evening. Otherwise, a cluster may

develop across western Kansas and spread east into central Kansas

towards midnight.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 35

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles north of Russell

KS to 20 miles west southwest 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 169...WW 170...



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

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

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

30025.



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