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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 275

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

815 PM CDT Thu Jul 12 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Wisconsin



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 815 PM

  until 100 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...A line of intense thunderstorms over western Wisconsin

will track eastward across the watch area this evening, posing a

risk of locally damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of

Mosinee WI to 45 miles north of Oshkosh WI. 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 273...WW 274...



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

27030.



...Hart

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