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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 57

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1110 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Upstate New York

  Much of Vermont



* Effective this Friday morning and afternoon from 1110 AM until

  400 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Short bands of fast-moving thunderstorms are expected to

move across upstate New York and into Vermont through the afternoon,

with the potential to produce damaging winds.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 65

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles north northeast

of Saranac Lake NY to 20 miles south southwest of Glens Falls 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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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

25045.



...Thompson

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