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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 289

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1005 AM CDT Wed May 29 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northwestern Arkansas

  Extreme southeastern Kansas

  Parts of soutthwestern and central Missouri

  Southern and eastern Oklahoma

  A small part of north Texas



* Effective this Wednesday morning and afternoon from 1005 AM

  until 500 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered 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...Clusters of storms will likely increase in

coverage/intensity through the morning and into the afternoon in a

corridor from southern Oklahoma northeastward into Missouri.  The

storm environment is sufficient for embedded supercells and

organized clusters capable of producing damaging winds and large

hail.  An isolated tornado cannot be ruled out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles west southwest

of Durant OK to 30 miles west northwest of Vichy MO. 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 285...WW 288...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

24030.



...Thompson

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