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SEL7
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 77
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
620 PM EDT Fri May 4 2018

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northwestern Connecticut
  Western Massachusetts
  Southwestern New Hampshire
  Eastern New York
  Northeastern Pennsylvania
  Southern Vermont

* Effective this Friday night and Saturday morning from 620 PM
  until 200 AM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging winds likely with isolated significant gusts
    to 75 mph possible
  A tornado or two possible

SUMMARY...A belt of showers and thunderstorms, with a history of
both severe and damaging wind gusts across the lower Great Lakes
region, will maintain some wind-damage threat eastward over the
watch area, before encountering more-stable air and weakening.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 80
statute miles east and west of a line from 30 miles south of
Williamsport PA to 30 miles north of Keene NH. 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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OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 75...WW 76...

AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE and ALOFT
TO 1 INCH. EXTREME TURBULENCE and SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 65 KNOTS.
A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 450. MEAN STORM MOTION
VECTOR 24050.


...Edwards