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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 690

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

615 PM EDT Thu Oct 31 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central and Eastern New York

  Northeast Pennsylvania



* Effective this Thursday night and Friday morning from 615 PM

  until 200 AM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts

    to 75 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Low-topped convection including a few thunderstorms will

continue to intensify and rapidly accelerate northeastward across

the region this evening. Damaging winds will be the primary risk,

with a brief tornado or two possible as well.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles west southwest

of Monticello NY to 30 miles northwest of Glens Falls NY. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).



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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 686...WW 687...WW

688...WW 689...



AVIATION...A few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to

0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 65 knots. A

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

22045.



...Guyer

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