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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 238

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

920 PM MDT Sat Jun 5 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest into central North Dakota



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 920 PM

  until 300 AM MDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A broken band of high-based thunderstorms may intensify

some in the next few hours while spreading east-northeastward from

southwest into central North Dakota.  Damaging winds will be the

main threat, though isolated large hail may occur with the strongest

storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west southwest

of Dickinson ND to 30 miles south southeast 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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

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

25035.



...Thompson

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