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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 182

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

425 PM CDT Thu May 14 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  South Central Iowa

  Northeast Kansas

  Northwest Missouri



* Effective this Thursday afternoon from 425 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to develop along a line from

southwest Iowa into northeast Kansas, then track eastward across the

watch area.  The strongest cells will pose a risk of damaging wind

gusts and large hail during most of the evening hours.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles south of Topeka

KS to 25 miles north of Knoxville IA. 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 60 knots. A

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

24030.



...Hart

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