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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 587

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1200 AM CDT Fri Aug 16 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Kansas

  Western and central Missouri



* Effective this Friday morning from Midnight until 700 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Multiple clusters of storms will spread southeastward

across eastern Kansas and western into central Missouri overnight.

The environment will support the possibility of additional

supercells/bowing segments capable of large hail and isolated

damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles northwest of

Leavenworth KS to 30 miles west southwest of Springfield MO. 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 584...WW 585...WW 586...



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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 650. Mean storm motion vector

30035.



...Guyer

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