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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 377

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

855 AM CDT Wed Jul 14 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northeast Iowa

  Southeast Minnesota

  Southwest Wisconsin



* Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 855 AM

  until 300 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of severe thunderstorms will move through the watch

area this morning and early afternoon with a risk for damaging winds

and isolated large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles southwest of

Mason City IA to 55 miles north northeast of Dubuque IA. 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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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 500. Mean storm motion vector

25025.



...Bunting

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