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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 247

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

850 PM CDT Sat May 25 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Kansas

  Western Missouri

  Northeast Oklahoma



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 850 PM

  until 300 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Large arcing line of thunderstorms will push east from

central portions of Kansas and Oklahoma into western Missouri.

Greatest threat is damaging wind gusts during the late evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70

statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles east of Tulsa OK

to 30 miles north of Topeka KS. 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 240...WW 241...WW

242...WW 244...WW 245...WW 246...



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

25035.



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