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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 192

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

150 PM EDT Sun May 19 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western Massachusetts

  Central and Eastern New York

  Northeast Pennsylvania

  Central and Southern Vermont



* Effective this Sunday afternoon and evening from 150 PM until

  900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Scattered large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to develop and intensify across

portions of New York this afternoon, spreading eastward across the

watch area.  The strongest cells will pose a risk of damaging wind

gusts and large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80

statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles west northwest

of Montpelier VT to 20 miles west southwest of Monticello NY. 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

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

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

25030.



...Hart

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