WW 164 SEVERE TSTM OK TX 232230Z – 240500Z
URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 164
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
530 PM CDT Wed Apr 23 2025
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Far Western Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle and South Plains
* Effective this Wednesday afternoon from 530 PM until Midnight
CDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2
inches in diameter possible
Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
A tornado or two possible
SUMMARY...Relatively isolated severe storms should develop through
early/mid-evening, particularly across the Texas and Oklahoma
Panhandles, but potentially also across the Texas South Plains.
These storms may reach other parts of western Oklahoma later this
evening.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70
statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east northeast
of Guymon OK to 55 miles south southeast of Lubbock TX. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).
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 162...WW 163...
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
24020.
...Guyer