URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 586
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
720 PM CDT Wed Jul 31 2024

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northwest Iowa
  Southwest Minnesota
  Southeast South Dakota

* Effective this Wednesday night from 720 PM until Midnight CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
    to 75 mph possible
  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...Several discrete storms and clusters of thunderstorms are
forecast to continue to intensify this evening.  Severe gusts
(60-75) are possible with the stronger outflow surges.  A tornado is
possible, especially early this evening.  Large hail may accompany
the stronger updrafts.  Some consolidation into a linear cluster is
forecast later this evening into parts of the southwest Minnesota
vicinity.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40
statute miles north and south of a line from 55 miles west southwest
of Mitchell SD to 30 miles northeast of Worthington MN. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 582...WW 583...WW
584...WW 585...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
29015.

...Smith