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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 426

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

245 PM CDT Sat Jun 22 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and Northeast Kansas

  Western Missouri

  Northwest Oklahoma



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 245 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter likely

  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to develop rapidly across the

watch area during the next few hours.  Extreme instability will

result in scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging winds

and large hail.  An isolated tornado or two is also possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90

statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles northwest of

Medicine Lodge KS to 45 miles northeast of Kansas City 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 424...WW 425...



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

26030.



...Hart

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