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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 205

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

100 PM EDT Wed May 26 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Western Connecticut

  Western Massachusetts

  Central and Eastern New York

  Eastern Ohio

  Much of Pennsylvania

  Southern Vermont

  Northern West Virginia



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 100 PM

  until 800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Scattered large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms will continue to develop through

the afternoon in a warm/humid air mass.  The strongest storms will

pose a risk of gusty/damaging wind gusts through early evening.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles north and south of a line from 50 miles south

southwest of Akron OH to 45 miles northeast of Pittsfield MA. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).



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 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Hart

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