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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 382

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

355 PM CDT Sat Jul 18 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and Northeast Minnesota

  Northwest Wisconsin

  Lake Superior



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 355 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will form this afternoon over parts of

central Minnesota and spread eastward across the watch area.

Activity will eventually move into parts of northern Wisconsin and

western Lake Superior, posing a continued risk of large hail and

damaging winds.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles north and south of a line from 60 miles west northwest

of Saint Cloud MN to 30 miles north northeast of Ironwood MI. 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

27035.



...Hart

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