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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 226

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

615 PM CDT Mon May 25 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Western Arkansas

  Eastern Oklahoma



* Effective this Monday night from 615 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A couple tornadoes possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible



SUMMARY...The potential will exist through the early/mid-evening

hours for a tornado or two across the region.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

east and west of a line from 20 miles east northeast of Grove OK to

50 miles south southeast of Poteau OK. For a complete depiction of

the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU6).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 55 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 17020.



...Guyer

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