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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 293

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

545 PM CDT Sun Jun 21 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  The Oklahoma Panhandle into northwest and central Oklahoma

  The northeast Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and Monday morning from 545 PM

  until 100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80

    mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A convective system is organizing across southwest Kansas,

and the storms will move southeastward into the northeast parts of

the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles, as well as northwest and central

Oklahoma later this evening into early tonight.  The storms have a

history of damaging winds and isolated significant severe gusts will

be possible this evening into northwest Oklahoma.  Otherwise, the

more intense storms could produce isolated large hail, and a brief

tornado cannot be ruled out later this evening across northwest

Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles north

northwest of Borger TX to 40 miles south of Ponca City OK. 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 290...WW 291...WW 292...



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

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A

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

32035.



...Thompson

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