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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 97

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1020 PM CDT Tue Mar 28 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of central and northeast Oklahoma

  Northwest Texas



* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 1020 PM

  until 500 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Initial bowing segment may persist with an attendant

damaging wind risk for another 1-2 hours into northeast Oklahoma

before weakening.  Otherwise, trailing band of strong/severe storms

will pose an occasional damaging wind/large hail risk across central

and southwest Oklahoma tonight, along with locally heavy rainfall

with training cells.  Late tonight, another line of storms in Texas

will spread northeastward into southern and central Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles east and west of a line from 10 miles west northwest

of Tulsa OK to 40 miles south of Wichita Falls TX. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



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 95...WW 96...



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

24030.



...Thompson

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