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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 95

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

230 PM CDT Tue Apr 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest into western north Texas



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 230 PM until

  1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorm development is expected along a slow-moving

front the next few hours from southwest Texas into western north

Texas, and over the high terrain west of Del Rio.  The storm

environment along and south of the watch will favor splitting

supercells capable of producing isolated very large hail and

damaging gusts.  Storm clusters should persist into the early

overnight hours along the front, with a gradual transition to

locally heavy rainfall as the main concern.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles north

northwest of Dryden TX to 25 miles east of Mineral Wells TX. 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

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

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

26020.



...Thompson

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