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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 97

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

1230 PM EDT Wed Apr 21 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Connecticut

  Delaware

  Western Massachusetts

  Eastern Maryland

  New Jersey

  Southeast New York

  Eastern Pennsylvania

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 1230 PM

  until 600 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Fast-moving thunderstorms will continue to develop and

spread east-northeastward across the region this afternoon with

damaging winds and some hail as the primary concerns.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 55

statute miles east and west of a line from 35 miles north northeast

of Westfield MA to 30 miles south southeast of Patuxent River MD.

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 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few

cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 400. Mean storm motion vector

21035.



...Guyer

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