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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 577

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1155 PM CDT Thu Aug 7 2025



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 

  Northwest Minnesota

  Eastern and Southern North Dakota



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 1155 PM

  until 700 AM CDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 80 mph possible

  Isolated very large hail events to 2 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Multiple bowing linear clusters of storms will continue

generally eastward overnight with potentially widespread wind

damage, occasional hail, and perhaps some line-embedded tornado

risk.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 20 miles northeast of

Hallock MN to 65 miles south of Jamestown ND. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



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 576...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 70 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Guyer