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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 615

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

650 PM CDT Fri Aug 23 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Kansas



* Effective this Friday evening from 650 PM until 1100 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated significant damaging wind gusts to 75 mph possible

  Isolated very large hail events to 2.5 inches in diameter

    possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Discrete supercell over southwest Kansas may evolve into a

slow-moving cluster along a remnant outflow boundary.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

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

Elkhart KS to 30 miles east southeast of Garden City 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 612...WW 613...WW 614...



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

2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

29015.



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