WW 329 SEVERE TSTM KS OK 180120Z – 180700Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 329
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
820 PM CDT Sat Jun 17 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southern Kansas
Central and eastern Oklahoma
* Effective this Saturday night and Sunday morning from 820 PM
until 200 AM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 90
mph likely
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
inches in diameter possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...QLCS over southwest Kansas and northwest Oklahoma will
spread rapidly east across the rest of southern Kansas and northern
Oklahoma. A cluster of supercells should also rapidly spread east
across southern Oklahoma.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 5 miles south of Durant
OK to 35 miles northeast of Wichita KS. For a complete depiction of
the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU9).
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 325...WW 326...WW
327...WW 328...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 80 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 600. Mean storm motion vector
28050.
...Grams
