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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 85

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

315 PM CDT Sun Mar 26 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Kansas



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 315 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Initially this afternoon, increasing elevated storms may

pose some severe hail risk across south-central toward southeast

Kansas. Additional near-surface-based storms are expected to develop

by late afternoon and early evening farther west across southern

Kansas in vicinity of a warm front. Severe hail and locally damaging

winds are expected to be the main risks, although a tornado cannot

be ruled out early this evening immediately near the Kansas/Oklahoma

border vicinity as low-level moisture continues to increase.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 25

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

Medicine Lodge KS to 95 miles east of Wichita KS. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

23025.



...Guyer

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