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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 99

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

340 PM CDT Fri Apr 10 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Pecos Valley of Texas



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 340 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A supercell or two should develop off the Davis Mountains

and gradually spread east through this evening. Large hail will be

the primary threat, but a brief tornado is also possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles north and south of a line from 65 miles west southwest

of Fort Stockton TX to 80 miles northeast of Dryden 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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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A

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

26025.



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