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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 265

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

310 AM CDT Sun Jul 8 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northwestern Minnesota

  Northeastern North Dakota



* Effective this Sunday morning from 310 AM until 1100 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated significant damaging wind gusts to 90 mph possible



SUMMARY...A cluster of thunderstorms with a history of

significant-severe (hurricane-force) gusts may continue to pose a

damaging-wind hazard across the watch area through mid-morning.

Additional storms also may form ahead of the complex and merge with

it, potentially enlarging the threat area into northwestern MN.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles either side of a line from 35 miles south of Devils

Lake ND to 35 miles east southeast of Warroad MN. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 264...



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 80 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean storm motion vector

25040.



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