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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 149

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

310 PM CDT Mon Apr 27 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southwest Texas



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 310 PM until

  900 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Isolated thunderstorms are developing east of the Davis

Mountains this afternoon, and a couple of these storms are expected

to evolve into splitting supercells with an attendant threat for

large hail and isolated severe outflow winds through this evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 35

statute miles east and west of a line from 115 miles north northeast

of Dryden TX to 20 miles west southwest 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 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

32015.



...Thompson

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