WW 561 SEVERE TSTM WI 282330Z – 290500Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 561
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
630 PM CDT Fri Jul 28 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Central and southern Wisconsin
* Effective this Friday night from 630 PM until Midnight CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
inches in diameter possible
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
SUMMARY...Splitting supercells embedded within a pair of clusters
should spread east-southeast across most of central and southern
Wisconsin through the rest of the evening.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast
of Wausau WI to 35 miles south of Madison WI. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).
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 557...WW 558...WW
559...WW 560...
AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
29030.
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