WW 612 SEVERE TSTM AR OK 080625Z – 081300Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 612
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
125 AM CDT Tue Aug 8 2023
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Southern Arkansas
North-central to southeast Oklahoma
* Effective this Tuesday morning from 125 AM until 800 AM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
inches in diameter possible
Isolated damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible
SUMMARY...Elevated supercells have developed and should persist
along the Oklahoma-Arkansas border for the next several hours, while
an additional cluster with embedded supercells spreads southeast
from north-central Oklahoma.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
statute miles north and south of a line from 40 miles north
northwest of Oklahoma City OK to 40 miles northeast of El Dorado AR.
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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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 55 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 650. Mean storm motion vector
32035.
...Grams
