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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 491

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

755 PM EDT Wed Sep 8 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Far western Connecticut

  Far western Massachusetts

  Western to northern New Jersey

  Southeast New York

  Eastern Pennsylvania



* Effective this Wednesday night from 755 PM until Midnight EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Line segments will continue to push east from eastern

Pennsylvania into southwest New England this evening with a threat

for damaging winds and a tornado or two.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 40

statute miles east and west of a line from 5 miles northwest of

Pittsfield MA to 35 miles south southwest of Allentown PA. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU1).



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

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

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

26030.



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