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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 284

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

240 PM MDT Fri Jun 19 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southeast Colorado

  Northeast New Mexico



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 240 PM until

  1000 PM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Isolated severe storms including a few supercells are

expected to develop initially near the foothills/I-25 corridor

including the Raton Mesa vicinity through late afternoon. Large hail

should the most probably hazard. Severe-caliber wind gusts could

also occur. A brief tornado cannot be ruled out across far southeast

Colorado/far northeast New Mexico Raton Mesa vicinity.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles north and south of a line from 35 miles west of

Trinidad CO to 20 miles northeast of Springfield CO. 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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

27025.



...Guyer

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