SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 79

WW 79 SEVERE TSTM TX 180015Z - 180700Z

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 79
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
715 PM CDT Wed Apr 17 2019

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Central Texas

* Effective this Wednesday night and Thursday morning from 715 PM
  until 200 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Widespread damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
    inches in diameter likely
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to develop and intensify
across the watch area this evening, posing a risk of damaging winds
and large hail.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles northeast of
Junction TX to 55 miles west of Cotulla TX. For a complete depiction
of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU9).

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 75...WW 76...WW 77...WW
78...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
25035.

...Hart

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