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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 96

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1200 PM EDT Thu Apr 9 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Southern Connecticut

  District Of Columbia

  Delaware

  Eastern Maryland

  New Jersey

  Southern New York

  Southeast Pennsylvania

  Northeast Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Thursday afternoon from NOON until 400 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Low-topped convection/thunderstorms will quickly develop

and intensify through early afternoon along an eastward-racing cold

front. The strongest convection will be capable of locally damaging

gusts.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 45 miles east southeast

of Washington DC to 20 miles northeast of Bridgeport CT. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).



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

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

few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 450. Mean storm motion vector

25045.



...Guyer

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