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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 64

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

650 PM CST Mon Mar 6 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Western Arkansas

  Southeast Kansas

  Southern Missouri

  Eastern Oklahoma



* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 650 PM

  until 300 AM CST.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes and a couple intense tornadoes possible

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorms will continue to develop

along a cold front as it overtakes a dryline across south-central

Kansas and west-central Oklahoma. Additional more isolated supercell

storms may also develop ahead of the front this evening as low-level

moisture continues to increase across the region. Large hail,

damaging winds, and tornadoes will all be possible.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 70 statute miles

north and south of a line from 45 miles west of Bartlesville OK to

40 miles southeast of Fort Leonard Wood MO. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU4).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 61...WW 62...WW 63...



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

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

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 24035.



...Guyer

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