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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 182

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

945 PM CDT Fri May 3 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Central and Northeast Kansas

  Southeast Nebraska

  Northern Oklahoma



* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 945 PM

  until 400 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Multiple well-organized squall lines will continue to

progress eastward into the overnight within an increasingly moist

air mass across southern Nebraska/far northern Kansas as well as

central Kansas. Other areas of strong to severe storms will likely

persist across northern Oklahoma.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast

of Beatrice NE to 85 miles southwest of Enid OK. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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...WW

180...WW 181...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Guyer