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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 222

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

740 PM CDT Fri May 28 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  South Plains and northern Permian Basin of Texas



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 740 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75

    mph possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A complex of thunderstorms is becoming better-organized

over eastern New Mexico at issuance time.  This activity should move

southeastward across the watch area this evening roughly astride a

low-level moist axis, with favorable storm-relative boundary-layer

flow, while offering severe wind and sporadic large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 75 miles west northwest

of Lubbock TX to 45 miles east northeast of Big Spring TX. 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 219...WW 220...WW 221...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

31035.



...Edwards

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