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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 78

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

345 PM CDT Thu Mar 23 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Kansas

  Oklahoma Panhandle

  Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 345 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to intensify this afternoon

over the western Texas Panhandle and southwest Kansas, and spread

northeastward across the watch area.  Damaging winds and hail will

be possible in the stronger cells until after dark.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles west southwest

of Plainview TX to 50 miles north of Garden City KS. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 400. Mean storm motion vector

24035.



...Hart

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