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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 368

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

525 PM CDT Sat Jul 10 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Parts of central and western Oklahoma



* Effective this Saturday afternoon from 525 PM until Midnight

  CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorm development is expected by 6-7pm CDT along a

cold front from north central into west central Oklahoma.  The storm

environment favors broken bands of multicell clusters and supercells

capable of producing damaging winds and large hail, and the severe

threat will persist into the early overnight hours as storms spread

southeastward across central and southwest Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

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

of Clinton OK to 45 miles northeast of Oklahoma City OK. 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 365...WW 366...WW 367...



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

32020.



...Thompson

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