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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 412

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

155 PM EDT Thu Jul 13 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Connecticut

  Western Massachusetts

  Northern New Jersey

  Southern New York

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 155 PM until

  900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Scattered severe thunderstorms will spread across the

lower Hudson Valley into southern New England, including adjacent

Long Island and portions of northern New Jersey this

afternoon/evening.  Damaging winds are the primary severe risk.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles either side of a line from 40 miles west of

Poughkeepsie NY to 25 miles northeast of Groton CT. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

27030.



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