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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 283

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1120 AM CDT Thu Jul 19 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western and Central Missouri



* Effective this Thursday morning and evening from 1120 AM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...An increasingly organized convective cluster across

central Missouri should continue to intensify and gradually

accelerate east/southeastward through the afternoon. Meanwhile,

additional storm development should occur on its western flank

and/or move into Missouri out of Kansas later this

afternoon/evening. Corridors of damaging winds/large can be expected

and a tornado cannot be entirely ruled out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles north northeast

of Knob Noster MO to 50 miles south southeast of Springfield MO. For

a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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

2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A

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

31030.



...Guyer

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