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SPC Tornado Watch 526

SPC Tornado Watch 526

[html]WW 526 TORNADO MN 282300Z - 290500Z
     
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Tornado Watch Number 526
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
600 PM CDT Sun Aug 28 2022

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Tornado Watch for portions of
  Central and southern Minnesota

* Effective this Sunday night from 600 PM until Midnight CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  A couple tornadoes possible
  Scattered damaging winds and isolated significant gusts to 80
    mph possible
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
    inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...A few discrete to semi-discrete supercells should develop
across west-central to central Minnesota through dusk. This activity
will likely congeal into an organized cluster approaching east to
south-central Minnesota in the late evening.

The tornado watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles
north and south of a line from 50 miles northwest of Redwood Falls
MN to 25 miles northeast of Minneapolis MN. For a co*plete depiction
of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
WOU6).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for
tornadoes and 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.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...c*NTINUE...WW 524...WW 525...

AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail
surface and aloft to 2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind
gusts to 70 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean
storm motion vector 27030.

...Grams


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Source: SPC Tornado Watch 526 (http://ht**://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0526.html)