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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 326

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

255 PM CDT Tue Jun 4 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Illinois

  South Central and Southeast Missouri



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 255 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are beginning to form over central Missouri.

 These storms will track eastward across the watch area through the

afternoon, posing a risk of locally damaging wind gusts and hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles west of Fort

Leonard Wood MO to 45 miles east northeast of Farmington MO. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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 324...WW 325...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

27030.



...Hart

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