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TORNADO WATCH issued for Cass & area Counties until 12-a.m. (9/25)

Weather

September 24th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

The Severe Storms Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, has issued a TORNADO WATCH for Cass and areas counties until Midnight (12-a.m. Wednesday). Area counties included in the WATCH are:

Adair, Adams, Audubon, Carroll, Cass, Crawford, Dallas, Fremont, Guthrie, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Sac, Shelby, Taylor and Union.

Primary Threats include:

A few tornadoes with a couple of intense tornadoes possible; scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events up to 3-inches in diameter likely; scattered damaging winds with gusts up to 80-mph possible.

Probability of:

2 or more tornadoes, 60%.

1 or more strong tornadoes (EF-2 to EF-5), 40%.

1 or more wind events greater than 75 mph, 40%

10 or more severe hail events, 70%.

1 or more hail events 2″ diameter or greater, 60%.

6 or more combined severe hail/wind events, 95%.

Mean storm motion: East at 45 mph.