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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 63

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1030 PM CDT Thu Mar 26 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  West-central Illinois

  East-central Kansas

  Central Missouri



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1030 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2.5 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 60 mph possible



SUMMARY...A cluster of elevated thunderstorms will develop east from

east-central Kansas tonight. A few embedded supercells should form

with a risk for large hail, generally near the I-70 corridor in

Missouri.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles southwest of

Topeka KS to 45 miles east northeast of Alton IL. 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 50 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

27045.



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