WW 462 SEVERE TSTM CO KS NM OK TX 082205Z – 090500Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 462
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
405 PM MDT Sat Jul 8 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southeast Colorado
Western Kansas
Northeast New Mexico
Oklahoma Panhandle
Texas Panhandle
* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 405 PM until
1100 PM MDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events
to 3 inches in diameter possible
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms will continue to develop within a
relatively moist environment, initially across southeast Colorado
and far northeast New Mexico late this afternoon. These will include
supercells capable of large hail, and some tornado risk will also
exist mainly across southeast Colorado this evening. Storms will
gradually spread toward the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandles and western
Kansas this evening, with an increasingly organized cluster of
storms potentially evolving.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles north of Lamar
CO to 60 miles west southwest of Amarillo TX. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).
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 461...
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 550. Mean storm motion vector
29025.
...Guyer
