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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 293

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1245 PM CDT Wed May 29 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Parts of western and northern Arkansas

  Southeastern Oklahoma

  Parts of north central and northeastern Texas



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 1245 PM

  until 800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Ongoing storms from north Texas into northwestern Arkansas

will continue to spread eastward through the afternoon.  Additional

warm sector, discrete storm development appears likely from

northeast Texas into western Arkansas through the afternoon.  The

storm environment is supportive of supercells with very large hail,

as well as storm clusters capable of damaging gusts.  Though

low-level shear is not particularly strong, some of the discrete

storms and/or storm interactions could pose a tornado threat, as

well as circulations embedded in line segments resulting from

upscale growth.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

east and west of a line from 20 miles north northeast of Flippin AR

to 50 miles east southeast of Stephenville TX. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 288...WW 289...WW

290...WW 291...WW 292...



AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean

storm motion vector 24030.



...Thompson

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