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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 129

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

320 PM CDT Mon May 28 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Kansas

  Oklahoma Panhandle

  Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 320 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will form rapidly this afternoon from

western Kansas into the Texas Panhandle, posing the risk of locally

damaging wind gusts and very large hail.  An isolated tornado or two

is also possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles north northwest

of Garden City KS to 25 miles south of Amarillo TX. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 127...WW 128...



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

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

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

23030.



...Hart

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