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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 138

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1015 PM CDT Mon May 3 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of central and north central Texas



* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 1015 PM

  until 300 AM 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

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Earlier supercells near and east of I-35 have evolved more

into clusters with the potential for damaging winds/large hail to

persist for a few more hours overnight as the storms spread

east-northeastward.  In the short term, an isolated tornado cannot

be ruled out.  Farther west, there is some potential for the

elevated severe storms in northwest Texas (with a prior history of

large hail and damaging winds) to continue eastward into north Texas

before weakening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles northeast of

Dallas TX to 25 miles southeast of Temple TX. 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 133...WW 134...WW

135...WW 136...WW 137...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

26025.



...Thompson

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