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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 269

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

945 PM CDT Sun Jun 7 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northwest Minnesota

  Eastern North Dakota



* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 945 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Scattered intense thunderstorms will persist for a few

more hours across eastern North Dakota and northwest Minnesota, with

locally damaging wind gusts and hail possible.  An isolated tornado

or two is also possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 105

statute miles east and west of a line from 10 miles north of Hallock

MN to 60 miles south of Jamestown ND. 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 267...WW 268...



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

22035.



...Hart

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