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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 369

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

510 PM EDT Fri Jun 23 2017



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  New Jersey

  Eastern Pennsylvania



* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 510 PM until

  1000 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Isolated damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible



SUMMARY...At least widely scattered storms will continue to quickly

spread eastward across the region through this evening within a

highly sheared and modestly unstable environment. Localized wind

damage is the primary risk, but some marginally severe hail could

also occur.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 45

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west southwest

of Allentown PA to 15 miles south of Newark NJ. For a complete

depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update

(WOUS64 KWNS WOU9).



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 365...WW 366...WW

367...WW 368...



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

26040.



...Guyer

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