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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 598
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1040 PM CDT Sun Aug 17 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Northeast Nebraska
  Southeast South Dakota

* Effective this Sunday night and Monday morning from 1040 PM
  until 400 AM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

SUMMARY...A linear thunderstorm cluster will likely move east across
the Watch tonight.  The main threats with the stronger storms will
be a risk for scattered severe gusts and perhaps an isolated threat
for large hail with the more intense cores.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65
statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles northeast of
Mitchell SD to 45 miles east southeast of Oneill NE. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).

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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AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27025.

...Smith