Storm Prediction Center Severe Thunderstorm Watch 296

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   URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
   Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 296
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   345 PM CDT Mon May 19 2025

   The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
     Southern Iowa
     Northern Missouri

   * Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 345 PM until
     1000 PM CDT.

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

   SUMMARY...Strong to severe thunderstorms over northern Missouri will
   spread northward across the watch this afternoon and evening.  The
   strongest storms will pose a risk of large hail.

   The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
   statute miles north and south of a line from 65 miles west northwest
   of Lamoni IA to 25 miles south of Ottumwa IA. For a complete
   depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
   (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

   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...CONTINUE...WW 292...WW 293...WW
   294...WW 295...

   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 500. Mean storm motion vector
   22030.

   ...Hart

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