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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 34

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

405 PM CST Sun Feb 19 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  southern Oklahoma

  west-central and western north Texas



* Effective this Sunday afternoon from 405 PM until Midnight CST.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms should gradually intensify through early

evening across west-central and western north Texas into southern

OK. Damaging winds and severe hail will be possible, and wind

profiles could support a brief tornado risk across parts of north

Texas into southern Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles north northeast

of Wichita Falls TX to 20 miles south southwest of Junction TX. For

a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).



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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

19025.



...Guyer

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