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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 613

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

235 PM MDT Fri Aug 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Colorado

  Extreme western Kansas

  Extreme southwestern Nebraska

  Extreme northeastern New Mexico

  The western Oklahoma Panhandle

  The northwestern Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 235 PM until

  1000 PM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are forming in several clusters along the

Front Range from northeastern New Mexico northward into Colorado.

The storm environment is most favorable for multicell clusters and

some upscale growth into larger clusters/line segments with an

attendant threat for damaging winds and large hail.  An isolated

tornado or two may occur later this evening as storms interact with

a remnant outflow boundary near the Kansas/Colorado border.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

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

of Akron CO to 25 miles south southeast of Dalhart TX. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 612...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

27025.



...Thompson

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