WW 164 SEVERE TSTM TX CW 230950Z – 231900Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 164
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
450 AM CDT Sun Apr 23 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
South Texas
Coastal Waters
* Effective this Sunday morning and afternoon from 450 AM until
200 PM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
to 80 mph possible
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
inches in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Initial supercell thunderstorms will pose a risk for large
hail and damaging gusts early this morning. Storms are then expected
to develop into a bowing line of convection tracking east/southeast
through midday with an attendant risk for swaths of damaging gusts
across south Texas.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 110
statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles north northeast
of Cotulla TX to 105 miles south of Corpus Christi TX. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).
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 163...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
30035.
...Leitman
