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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 223

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

705 PM CDT Sun May 24 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of northwest into central Texas



* Effective this Sunday night from 705 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely



SUMMARY...Multiple thunderstorm cluster and boundary mergers are

expected this evening into the early overnight hours.  The storms

will primarily be multicell in structure, but strong instability

suggests the potential for large hail with the newer storm

development, and damaging outflow winds after storm mergers and core

collapses.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles north of Abilene

TX to 30 miles south southeast of Junction 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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 217...WW 218...WW

219...WW 220...WW 221...WW 222...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

28020.



...Thompson

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