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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 183

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

130 PM CDT Sat May 4 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Southeast New Mexico

  West into Northwest Texas



* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 130 PM until

  1000 PM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Scattered severe thunderstorms are forecast to develop

this afternoon across portions of the Permian Basin east into the

Texas Big Country.  Elevated supercells will likely pose a large to

very large hail risk.  In closer proximity to the surface boundary,

a risk for severe gusts and perhaps a tornado may develop later

today into the early evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 55 miles west of Hobbs

NM to 40 miles east of Abilene TX. For a complete depiction of the

watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

26025.



...Smith