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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 174

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

800 PM CDT Wed May 1 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Northeast Colorado

  Northwest and North-Central Kansas

  Southwest Nebraska



* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 800 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Severe storms are expected to further develop from

northeast Colorado into southwest Nebraska and northwest Kansas,

while additional area of storms could move into north-central

Kansas. Large hail should be the most common severe hazard, but

locally damaging gusts are possible and some tornado risk may exist

across north-central Kansas.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles north

northwest of Burlington CO to 45 miles south of Hastings NE. 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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 170...WW 171...WW

172...WW 173...



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.



...Guyer