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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 624

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

510 PM CDT Mon Aug 26 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northwest Arkansas

  Southeast Kansas

  Southwest Missouri

  Central and Northeast Oklahoma



* Effective this Monday afternoon from 510 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to develop and intensify late

this afternoon and early evening, initially across southeast Kansas

and northeast Oklahoma into southern Missouri, with storms

expanding/developing south-southeastward through the evening.

Damaging winds and large hail will be the primary risks, although a

tornado cannot be ruled out particularly across southeast

Kansas/southwest Missouri and northeast Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east northeast

of Chanute KS to 20 miles south southeast of Oklahoma City OK. 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 623...



AVIATION...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 600. Mean storm motion vector

30025.



...Guyer

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