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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 435

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

640 AM CDT Fri Aug 14 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of northwestern and west central Minnesota

  Southeastern and east central North Dakota



* Effective this Friday morning and afternoon from 640 AM until

  200 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events

    to 2 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Clusters of severe storms, with both supercell and bowing

characteristics, will spread east-northeastward from southern North

Dakota into western Minnesota through the morning into early

afternoon.  Damaging winds and large hail are likely with the

stronger storms.  An isolated tornado or two may also occur later

this morning/afternoon near and east of the Minnesota border.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 80 miles west southwest

of Fargo ND to 15 miles northeast of Bemidji MN. 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 434...



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

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

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

25040.



...Thompson

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