URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 605
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
520 PM CDT Wed Sep 3 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Central and Eastern Kansas
  Western Missouri

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 520 PM
  until 1100 PM CDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
    inches in diameter possible
  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...Intense thunderstorms are expected to develop and track
southward across the watch area this evening.  Supercells capable of
large hail are the main concern, along with some risk of damaging
wind gusts.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50
statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles north
northwest of Medicine Lodge KS to 75 miles east northeast of Chanute
KS. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch
outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).

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
2.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
35025.

...Hart