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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 485

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

340 PM EDT Thu Sep 3 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  District Of Columbia

  Delaware

  Maryland

  Southern New Jersey

  Southeast Pennsylvania

  Northern Virginia

  Eastern West Virginia Panhandle

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 340 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes likely

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible



SUMMARY...Multiple supercells will likely develop near and north of

the greater Washington D.C. area and spread east as a cluster across

the coastal plain through mid-evening. A few tornadoes and swaths of

damaging winds are likely.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 85 statute miles

east and west of a line from 45 miles north northwest of Wilmington

DE to 30 miles west southwest of Patuxent River MD. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...



REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for

tornadoes and 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.



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AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail

surface and aloft to 1 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 65 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean

storm motion vector 27035.



...Grams

