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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 659

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

305 PM CDT Tue Sep 24 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central Kansas



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 305 PM until

  1000 PM 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



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to intensify over portions of

central Kansas this afternoon and early evening.  The strongest

cells will pose a risk of large hail and damaging wind gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles west southwest

of Medicine Lodge KS to 50 miles north of Hutchinson KS. 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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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 500. Mean storm motion vector

28025.



...Hart

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