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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 622

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1210 PM CDT Mon Aug 26 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of central and southern Missouri



* Effective this Monday afternoon from 1210 PM until 500 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A well-developed storm cluster with bowing characteristics

will likely persist into the afternoon while moving

east-southeastward into an environment more supportive of

surface-based storms.  The storms have produced measured gusts up to

76 mph in the past hour or so, and the threat for damaging winds and

isolated large hail should continue for several more hours.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles north of

Joplin MO to 45 miles east southeast of Fort Leonard Wood MO. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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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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 550. Mean storm motion vector

30040.



...Thompson

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