Skip to main content
Topic: SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 201 (Read 88 times) previous topic - next topic

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 201

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 201

[html]WW 201 SEVERE TSTM OK TX 110030Z - 110700Z
     
WW 0201 Image


URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 201
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
730 PM CDT Tue May 10 2022

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Western Oklahoma
  Extreme northwest Texas

* Effective this Tuesday night and Wednesday morning from 730 PM
  until 200 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 75
    mph likely
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Clusters of severe storms in the Texas/Oklahoma Panhandles
and Texas South Plains will consolidate into a larger convective
co*plex and spread into western Oklahoma and extreme northwest Texas
later this evening into tonight.  Damaging winds up to 75 mph will
be the main threat, though the stronger embedded storms will also be
capable of producing large hail up to 1.5 inches in diameter.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles west northwest
of Alva OK to 45 miles south of Altus OK. For a co*plete depiction
of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU1).

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...c*NTINUE...WW 197...WW 198...WW
199...WW 200...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
26025.

...Thompson


Read more[/html]

Source: SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 201 (http://ht**://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0201.html)