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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 118

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

215 PM MDT Wed May 23 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern New Mexico

  Southwest Texas



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 215 PM

  until 900 PM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to intensify across eastern

New Mexico and Southwest Texas this afternoon, with the risk of a

few storms producing large hail and damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles south southeast

of Marfa TX to 15 miles northeast of Raton NM. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 117...



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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

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

23025.



...Hart

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