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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 398
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1225 PM MDT Sat Jun 8 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Eastern Colorado
  Northwest Kansas
  Southwest Nebraska
  Far Southeast Wyoming

* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1225 PM
  until 700 PM MDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
    to 85 mph possible
  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events
    to 2.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to increase in coverage and
intensity this afternoon as they spread eastward from the Front
Range across the central High Plains. Initially large to very large
hail will be the main threat with more discrete cells. A transition
to a greater threat for significant severe winds will likely occur
as a bowing cluster eventually develops later this afternoon into
the early evening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 115
statute miles north and south of a line from 10 miles west of Denver
CO to 25 miles east northeast of Burlington CO. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).

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
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 75 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
28035.

...Gleason