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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 58

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

115 PM EST Wed Mar 1 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Delaware

  Eastern Maryland

  Central and Southern New Jersey

  Southeast Pennsylvania

  Eastern Virginia

  Coastal Waters



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 115 PM

  until 700 PM EST.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible

  A tornado or two possible



SUMMARY...A line of strong to severe storms will track across the

watch this afternoon, posing a risk of damaging winds and some hail.

 Conditions may also become favorable for an isolated tornado or two

by mid-late afternoon ahead of the line of storms.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75

statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles south southwest

of Richmond VA to 20 miles north of Trenton NJ. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).



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 56...WW 57...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

25035.



...Hart

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