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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 195

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 AM CDT Mon May 20 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern New Mexico

  Oklahoma Panhandle

  Texas Panhandle and South Plains



* Effective this Monday morning from 155 AM until 1000 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms should grow in coverage and intensify

through sunrise and beyond, offering predominantly a large-hail

threat for the first few hours, with isolated severe gusts possible.

 As storms organize further into greater moisture and instability

toward sunrise, the damaging-wind risk will increase as well.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 85

statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles east southeast

of Roswell NM to 25 miles north northeast of Guymon OK. 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 550. Mean storm motion vector

23035.



...Edwards

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