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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 498

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

140 PM CDT Mon Jul 8 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  North Dakota



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 140 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms have initiated across central North Dakota

and should develop/spread east-northeast across northeast North

Dakota, as well potentially develop into southwest North Dakota.

This should result in a broad cluster or linear MCS with large hail

and severe wind gusts the primary hazards.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles east of Lemmon

SD to 60 miles north northwest of Devils Lake ND. 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

3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A

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

24025.



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