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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Tornado Watch Number 392

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

255 PM EDT Tue Oct 2 2018



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Tornado Watch for portions of

  Southeast New York

  Eastern Ohio

  Pennsylvania

  Extreme northern West Virginia



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 255 PM until

  1100 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  A few tornadoes possible

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail and isolated very large hail events to 2

    inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A moist and modestly unstable environment along with

increasingly strong deep-layer/low-level shear will support the

possibility of supercells capable of a tornado risk along with

hail/wind.



The tornado watch area is approximately along and 50 statute miles

north and south of a line from 10 miles southwest of Youngstown OH

to 30 miles east southeast of Wilkesbarre PA. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).



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 2 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind

gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean

storm motion vector 27030.



...Guyer

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