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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 95

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

135 PM CDT Wed Apr 14 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme southwest Louisiana

  The Middle and Upper Texas Coastal Plains

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 135 PM

  until 800 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Widely scattered thunderstorm development is expected by

mid afternoon from the Middle Texas Coastal Plain northeastward to

extreme southwest Louisiana.  The storm environment will favor a mix

of multicell clusters and some supercell structures, with an

attendant threat for large hail and isolated damaging gusts into

this evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 30

statute miles either side of a line from 55 miles southwest of

Victoria TX to 40 miles east of Port Arthur 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 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

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

27015.



...Thompson

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