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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 194

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1005 PM CDT Tue Jun 19 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern and East-Central Kansas

  Northwest Oklahoma

  Northeast Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 1005 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A linearly organized Mesoscale Convective System continues

to accelerate east/southeastward across west-central Kansas late

this evening. Recent observed wind gusts include 56 knots at Garden

City, Kansas as of 0244Z/944pm CDT. This system will likely spread

into much of southern/central Kansas and possibly northwest Oklahoma

through the early overnight hours, with pockets of embedded wind

damage expected aside from some sporadic hail as well.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles south of

Manhattan KS to 25 miles south of Liberal KS. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 192...WW 193...



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 600. Mean storm motion vector

30040.



...Guyer

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