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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 474
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
115 PM MDT Thu Jun 27 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Western Colorado
  Central and Eastern Utah

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 115 PM until
  900 PM MDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are developing over the higher terrain of
central Utah.  This activity will spread eastward through the
afternoon and early evening, posing a risk of a few instances of
large hail and damaging wind gusts.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95
statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles south southeast
of Bullfrog Marina UT to 40 miles north northwest of Craig CO. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

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 473...

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 500. Mean storm motion vector
25025.

...Hart