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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 64

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

405 PM CDT Fri Mar 27 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest into central Missouri



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 405 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Elevated thunderstorms with a history of large hail, and

some supercell structures, will continue to spread

east-northeastward across Missouri through the afternoon.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 35

statute miles north and south of a line from 10 miles south

southwest of Joplin MO to 25 miles south southeast of Vichy MO. 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

24055.



...Thompson

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