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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 193

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1215 PM MDT Sat May 22 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Eastern Colorado



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1215 PM

  until 800 PM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Isolated significant damaging wind gusts to 75 mph possible



SUMMARY...A moist air mass extends across the eastern Colorado

Plains toward the Front Range and I-25 urban corridor this

afternoon. This moisture along with additional heating and upslope

low-level winds will likely contribute to severe thunderstorm

development by mid-afternoon, initially near the Front Range, with

storms subsequently developing quickly northeastward into the

adjacent Plains of east-central/northeast Colorado. Large hail

should be the most prevalent risk, but the potential will also exist

for a couple of tornadoes, and eventually damaging winds into late

afternoon/early evening as storms organize/move northeastward.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

east and west of a line from 55 miles north of Akron CO to 25 miles

southeast of Trinidad CO. 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.



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

surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 65 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 21030.



...Guyer

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