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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 185

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

140 AM CDT Fri May 15 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Far west-central Illinois

  Southwest to east-central Missouri



* Effective this Friday morning from 140 AM until 600 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...A squall line with a history to strong to locally severe

wind gusts may persist east into portions of southwest through

east-central Missouri through about daybreak.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 10 miles south southeast

of Springfield MO to 35 miles northwest of Saint Louis MO. 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 184...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Grams

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