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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 394

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

255 PM EDT Wed Jul 22 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western Connecticut

  Delaware

  Western Massachusetts

  Eastern Maryland

  New Jersey

  Eastern New York

  Eastern Pennsylvania

  Southern Vermont

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 255 PM

  until 1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms over Virginia and Pennsylvania will continue

to move/develop eastward this afternoon and early evening, affecting

the watch area.  The strongest storms will be capable of damaging

wind gusts and perhaps hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles east and west of a line from 50 miles south southeast

of Dover DE to 25 miles north of Albany NY. For a complete depiction

of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS

WOU4).



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 393...



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.



...Hart

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