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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 523

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

230 PM EDT Fri Jul 19 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western and central New York

  Northern Ohio

  Western and northern Pennsylvania

  Lake Erie



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 230 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Multiple corridors of thunderstorms are expected to

develop and increase across the region, including development in the

lee of the Great Lakes with a complex of storms also moving

southeastward out of Ontario. Wind damage is the primary risk

through the afternoon into evening within a moist and strongly

unstable air mass.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles south

southeast of Utica NY to 10 miles west southwest of Cleveland OH.

For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch

outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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

1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector

30025.



...Guyer

