EXTENDED: Cheyenne Severe Thunderstorm Watch Saturday

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for eastern Wyoming, parts of Colorado, and the Nebraska Panhandle, including the cities of Cheyenne and Laramie, until 11:00 PM Saturday (July 6, 2019).

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 495, PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM
MDT THIS EVENING, IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS EVENING
FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS

IN NEBRASKA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES

IN PANHANDLE NEBRASKA

CHEYENNE

IN WESTERN NEBRASKA

BANNER                KIMBALL               MORRILL
SCOTTS BLUFF

IN WYOMING THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES

IN SOUTHEAST WYOMING

GOSHEN                LARAMIE

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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 495
   NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
   1240 PM MDT Sat Jul 6 2019

   The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

   * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
     Northeast Colorado
     The western Nebraska Panhandle
     Southeast Wyoming

   * Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 1240 PM
     until 900 PM MDT.

   * Primary threats include...
     Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2.5
       inches in diameter likely
     Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
     A tornado or two possible

   SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorm development appears to be underway
   along the Front Range from northeast Colorado into southeast
   Wyoming.  The environment east of the mountains will favor splitting
   supercells capable of producing isolated very large hail, and
   perhaps a tornado with the more dominant right-moving storms. 
   Otherwise, some clustering of storms will be possible later this
   evening farther east toward the Nebraska Panhandle, with an
   attendant threat for a few severe gusts.

   The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75
   statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles east northeast
   of Douglas WY to 25 miles west of Limon CO. For a complete depiction
   of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS
   WOU5).