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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 343

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

200 PM EDT Wed Jul 8 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western and central Maine

  New Hampshire

  Vermont

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 200 PM

  until 1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Storms are expected to expected to develop and intensify

and otherwise move southeastward into/across the region through the

late afternoon and evening hours.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 100

statute miles east and west of a line from 110 miles north northeast

of Berlin NH to 25 miles south southeast of Concord NH. 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

1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

29020.



...Guyer

