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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 449

NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK

120 PM EDT Tue Aug 25 2020



The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a



* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of

  Extreme western Maryland

  Southern New York

  Central and Eastern Ohio

  Much of Pennsylvania

  Northern West Virginia



* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 120 PM until

  900 PM EDT.



* Primary threats include...

  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

  Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible



SUMMARY...Severe thunderstorms will move southeast across the watch

area this afternoon with a risk for damaging wind gusts and isolated

reports of large hail.



The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60

statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles northwest of

Athens OH to 45 miles east southeast of Binghamton NY. 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.



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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 500. Mean storm motion vector

30030.



...Bunting

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