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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 55

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

745 PM CDT Fri Mar 15 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  South Texas



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 745 PM

  until 300 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter likely

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms currently just west of the Rio Grande

will build eastward into South Texas tonight, posing a risk of very

large hail and damaging winds.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles northwest of

Cotulla TX to 30 miles west southwest of Mcallen TX. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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 54...



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

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

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

29035.



...Hart