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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 439

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

535 PM CDT Fri Aug 14 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern Minnesota

  Western Wisconsin



* Effective this Friday afternoon from 535 PM until Midnight CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Isolated/widely scattered severe thunderstorms will

develop eastward across eastern Minnesota into western Wisconsin

this evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles east northeast

of Brainerd MN to 45 miles southeast of Minneapolis MN. 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 436...WW 437...WW 438...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

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

25020.



...Guyer

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