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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 372

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

125 AM CDT Wed Jul 15 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  A small part of central and northeast Kansas



* Effective this Wednesday morning from 125 AM until 600 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Recent thunderstorm development west of Hutchinson has

shown some upscale growth and evolution into a bowing segment with a

comma head structure.  This convection will have the potential to

produce a few damaging gusts for the next few hours while moving

east-northeastward along a surface front across central into

northeast Kansas.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of

Hutchinson KS to 115 miles east northeast of Hutchinson KS. 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 371...



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean storm motion vector

25030.



...Thompson

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