URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 601
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
240 PM MST Wed Aug 19 2026

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Southern Arizona

* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 240 PM
  until 1100 PM MST.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

SUMMARY...Strong to severe storms will continue to develop
especially over the mountains, with some storm organization and
aggregating outflows expected to reach the desert floor, with
severe-caliber wind gusts and blowing dust possible through at least
early/mid-evening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95
statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles northeast of
Phoenix AZ to 35 miles west southwest of Sierra Vista AZ. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).

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 600...

AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to
0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
03020.

...Guyer