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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 180

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

400 PM CDT Fri May 3 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Southeast Colorado

  Western Kansas

  Northeast New Mexico

  Oklahoma Panhandle

  Northern Texas Panhandle



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 400 PM until

  1100 PM 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...A few bands of intensifying thunderstorms will gradually

move east across the Watch area this afternoon into the evening. 

Large hail and severe gusts will be possible with the stronger

thunderstorms.  Upscale growth into a squall line is forecast later

this evening over southwest Kansas with severe gusts becoming the

primary severe hazard.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95

statute miles east and west of a line from 85 miles north northwest

of Garden City KS to 50 miles southwest of Guymon OK. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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 178...WW 179...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

25025.



...Smith