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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 609
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
455 PM MDT Tue Aug 6 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northern into Central and Eastern Montana

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon from 455 PM until Midnight
  MDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Widely scattered to scattered thunderstorms will continue
to develop and intensify through the mid evening.  The stronger
initial cellular storms will pose an isolated risk for large hail (1
to 2 inches in diameter) and severe gusts.  Additional storms with
some outflow merging and upscale growth into one or more clusters is
expected later this evening.  Severe gusts (60-70 mph) and perhaps
large hail may acco*pany this activity late this evening into the
early overnight.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90
statute miles north and south of a line from 75 miles north
northwest of Drummond MT to 20 miles northeast of Glendive MT. For a
co*plete 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...c*NTINUE...WW 605...WW 606...WW
607...WW 608...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector
27035.

...Smith