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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 184

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1120 PM CDT Thu May 14 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  West Central Illinois

  Southeast Kansas

  Central Missouri



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1120 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Several lines and clusters of thunderstorms will move

across the watch area overnight, posing the risks of damaging wind

gusts and hail in the more intense storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles southwest of

Chanute KS to 25 miles north northeast of Quincy IL. 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 182...WW 183...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

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

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

26030.



...Hart

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