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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 208

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

355 PM EDT Wed May 26 2021



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Northern Connecticut

  Central Massachusetts

  Western Maine

  New Hampshire



* Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from 355 PM

  until 1100 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...Thunderstorms over New York and Vermont will track

eastward across the watch area this afternoon and evening.  Hot and

humid conditions, coupled with strong winds aloft, will pose a risk

of locally damaging wind gusts in the strongest cells.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles northeast of

Berlin NH to 25 miles east southeast of Windsor Locks CT. 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.



&&



OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 205...WW 206...WW 207...



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 450. Mean storm motion vector

26035.



...Hart

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