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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 187

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

655 PM EDT Mon May 1 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Eastern and northern New York

  Extreme northeastern Pennsylvania

  Western Vermont



* Effective this Monday night from 655 PM until Midnight EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Well-developed squall line approaching central New York

and central Pennsylvania will persist for the next few hours will

moving quickly east-northeastward.  Damaging gusts will continue to

be a threat, prior to the convection weakening as it encounters a

more stable environment near or just east of the eastern New York

and Vermont border.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 70 miles north northwest

of Glens Falls NY to 20 miles east southeast of Monticello NY. For a

complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline

update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).



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 185...WW 186...



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 400. Mean storm motion vector

24050.



...Thompson

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