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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 417

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1250 PM EDT Mon Jul 17 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Central New York

  Northeast Pennsylvania

  Vermont



* Effective this Monday afternoon and evening from 1250 PM until

  800 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms will continue to form along a cold front

moving across New York, and will spread across the watch area this

afternoon.  Locally damaging wind gusts are the main threat, with

hail also possible.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 50

statute miles north and south of a line from 20 miles west northwest

of Binghamton NY to 20 miles north northeast of Lebanon NH. 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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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

24030.



...Hart

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