SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 203

WW 203 SEVERE TSTM AR OK 230445Z - 231200Z

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 203
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1145 PM CDT Fri Jun 22 2018

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Western and central Arkansas
  Far eastern Oklahoma

* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 1145 PM
  until 700 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...Line of strong to severe storms from northeast to
south-central Oklahoma will continue pushing rapidly east into
Arkansas overnight. While the coverage of severe wind gusts should
wane through the early morning, scattered damaging winds will be
possible.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90
statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles southeast of De
Queen AR to 40 miles north northwest of Russellville AR. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).

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 201...WW 202...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
28050.

...Grams

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