Severe Local Storm Watch and Watch Cancellation Msg
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 570
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
755 PM CDT Sun Aug 3 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Western Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle
  The Texas Panhandle

* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 755 PM
  until 300 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
    to 80 mph possible
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 3
    inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...A long-lived supercell across far southwest Kansas will
continue to pose a threat for large to very large hail as it moves
southward into parts of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. An
intense thunderstorm cluster will also spread southward this evening
and overnight from southwest Kansas into parts of western Oklahoma
and the eastern Texas Panhandle. Severe/damaging winds appear likely
with this cluster, and peak gusts may reach up to 70-80 mph.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
statute miles north and south of a line from 25 miles west southwest
of Guymon OK to 55 miles south southeast of Alva OK. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).

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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 569...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
35030.

...Gleason