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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 563

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

440 PM EDT Thu Aug 8 2019



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  western and central Connecticut

  western Massachusetts

  northern New Jersey

  southeastern New York

  parts of eastern Pennsylvania

  southern Vermont



* Effective this Thursday afternoon from 440 PM until Midnight

  EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 60 mph possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms moving across southeast New York/northeast

Pennsylvania and vicinity at this time will continue eastward over

the next few hours, accompanied by a risk for locally damaging

winds.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 15 miles east northeast

of Keene NH to 60 miles southwest of Poughkeepsie NY. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU3).



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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 562...



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 500. Mean storm motion vector

27035.



...Goss

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