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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 22
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
750 PM CDT Tue Mar 16 2021
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
South Central Kansas
Western and North-Central Oklahoma
Eastern Texas Panhandle
* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 750 PM
until 300 AM CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Widespread large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
inches in diameter likely
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to intensify rapidly this
evening along a boundary over northwest Oklahoma and the northeast
Texas Panhandle. Other isolated cells may develop slightly farther
south. Storms will track northeastward across the watch, posing a
risk of very large hail, damaging winds, and perhaps a tornado or
two.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55
statute miles north and south of a line from 90 miles west of
Clinton OK to Ponca City OK. 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
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector
24035.
...Hart
