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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 185

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

700 PM CDT Sat May 4 2024



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Central and South-Central Texas



* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 700 PM

  until 200 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5

    inches in diameter possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Severe storms including supercells will gradually spread

eastward into a broad part of central Texas, and possibly across the

Rio Grande, while upstream storms across southwest Texas are also

expected to organize and move into the region.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east northeast

of Stephenville TX to 40 miles west southwest of Hondo 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 183...WW 184...



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 550. Mean storm motion vector

29025.



...Guyer