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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 180
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
400 PM CDT Fri May 3 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Southeast Colorado
  Western Kansas
  Northeast New Mexico
  Oklahoma Panhandle
  Northern Texas Panhandle

* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 400 PM until
  1100 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A few bands of intensifying thunderstorms will gradually
move east across the Watch area this afternoon into the evening.
Large hail and severe gusts will be possible with the stronger
thunderstorms.  Upscale growth into a squall line is forecast later
this evening over southwest Kansas with severe gusts becoming the
primary severe hazard.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95
statute miles east and west of a line from 85 miles north northwest
of Garden City KS to 50 miles southwest of Guymon OK. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).

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...

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 450. Mean storm motion vector
25025.

...Smith