WW 250 SEVERE TSTM CO KS NM OK TX 302220Z – 310400Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 250
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
520 PM CDT Tue May 30 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southeast Colorado
Southwest Kansas
Northeast New Mexico
Oklahoma Panhandle
Texas Panhandle
* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 520 PM until
1100 PM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80
mph possible
Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Multicell clusters should congeal off the Sangre de
Cristos and spread east-northeast into the Panhandles and southwest
Kansas. Severe wind gusts will be the main threat but a landspout
tornado or two may persist in southeast Colorado.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles north northwest
of Garden City KS to 50 miles south of Dalhart TX. 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 249...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector
25020.
...Grams
