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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 262

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1215 PM MDT Sat Jun 6 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and eastern Colorado



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1215 PM

  until 800 PM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80

    mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...High-based thunderstorms are developing just east of the

Front Range in southeast Colorado, and additional development

northward is expected through the afternoon.  A separate broken band

of severe storms in western Colorado will likely affect the higher

mountain areas of central Colorado this afternoon.  The storm

environment across central Colorado will favor a mix of fast-moving

supercells and bowing segments, while high-based storm clusters are

expected farther east.  The storm environment favors damaging winds

as a primary threat, some of which could be significant, as well as

isolated large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles north northeast

of Fort Collins CO to 45 miles west southwest of Trinidad CO. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 260...WW 261...



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

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

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

21045.



...Thompson

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