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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 477
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
515 PM CDT Thu Jun 27 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  West and Southwest Kansas
  Far Northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle
  Northern Texas Panhandle

* Effective this Thursday afternoon from 515 PM until Midnight
  CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are forecast to continue to
develop this evening over western parts of the Watch area, and move
east into a more moist airmass as a low-level jet intensifies.  The
stronger storms will be capable of a risk for severe gusts (60-70
mph) and perhaps large hail with the stronger thunderstorm cores.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles north northeast
of Garden City KS to 40 miles south of Guymon OK. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

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...WW 474...WW
475...WW 476...

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
26025.

...Smith