SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 16

WW 16 SEVERE TSTM KS 040310Z – 040900Z

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 16
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
910 PM CST Mon Mar 3 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Southern Kansas

* Effective this Monday night and Tuesday morning from 910 PM
  until 300 AM CST.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 60 mph possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Storms are expected to increase and develop eastward
across southern Kansas through the late evening and overnight, with
bouts of large hail and locally damaging winds as the primary
hazards.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles north and south of a line from 70 miles west northwest
of Medicine Lodge KS to 70 miles east of Wichita KS. 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.

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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 50 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
24030.

...Guyer

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