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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 562

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1235 PM EDT Thu Aug 8 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  far western Maryland

  central and northern New York

  parts of eastern Ohio

  a large portion of Pennsylvania

  the western panhandle of West Virginia

  Lake Ontario



* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 1235 PM

  until 800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 60 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...A band of strong/locally severe thunderstorms continues to

organize as it moves across western New York/northern Pennsylvania,

with other/more isolated storms to continue increasing from eastern

Ohio eastward across Pennsylvania.  Locally damaging winds will

occur with the strongest storms, along with some hail risk.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles north northeast

of Utica NY to 45 miles southwest of Latrobe PA. 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 50 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Goss

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