WW 378 SEVERE TSTM AR OK 251935Z – 260300Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 378
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
235 PM CDT Sun Jun 25 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northern and central Arkansas
Eastern Oklahoma
* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 235 PM until
1000 PM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
to 85 mph possible
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
inches in diameter possible
SUMMARY...Initial supercells will rapidly develop across northern
Arkansas into eastern Oklahoma and should eventually cluster towards
central Arkansas this evening.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles southwest of
Muskogee OK to 50 miles south southeast of Batesville AR. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
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 374...WW 375...WW
376...WW 377...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 75 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 650. Mean storm motion vector
30025.
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