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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 375

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

135 PM EDT Tue Jul 13 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  western and central New York

  Pennsylvania

  Lake Erie

  Lake Ontario



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 135 PM until

  1100 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...Storms are expected to develop across Pennsylvania and New

York into the afternoon and early evening. The stronger storms will

become capable of producing locally strong to damaging wind gusts

and possibly some hail. A tornado or two also cannot be ruled out.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 90

statute miles east and west of a line from 60 miles north northwest

of Syracuse NY to 25 miles west of Hagerstown MD. 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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector

25035.



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