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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 183
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
130 PM CDT Sat May 4 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Southeast New Mexico
  West into Northwest Texas

* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 130 PM until
  1000 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
    inches in diameter likely
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Scattered severe thunderstorms are forecast to develop
this afternoon across portions of the Permian Basin east into the
Texas Big Country.  Elevated supercells will likely pose a large to
very large hail risk.  In closer proximity to the surface boundary,
a risk for severe gusts and perhaps a tornado may develop later
today into the early evening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
statute miles north and south of a line from 55 miles west of Hobbs
NM to 40 miles east of Abilene TX. For a complete depiction of the
watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).

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
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
26025.

...Smith