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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 312
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
305 PM CDT Thu May 22 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Southwest and South-Central Oklahoma
  Western and North Texas

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 305 PM until
  1000 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered large hail likely with isolated very large hail events
    to 3 inches in diameter possible
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Severe storms including supercells are expected to
steadily develop through late afternoon, including across western
north Texas and southwest Oklahoma near a boundary from prior
storms, and also across the Texas South Plains. Storms may
eventually merge/cluster across parts of the Low Rolling Plains and
western North Texas. Potentially very large hail and severe-caliber
wind gusts are the primary hazards.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles north and south of a line from 65 miles east of
Wichita Falls TX to 55 miles north of Big Spring TX. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

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 311...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
3 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
29025.

...Guyer