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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 395
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
1255 PM EDT Thu Jul 23 2020

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Northern Connecticut
  Massachusetts
  Downeast Maine
  Southern New Hampshire
  Rhode Island
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 1255 PM
  until 800 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible
  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are expected to intensify this afternoon in
a warm, humid, and unstable air mass.  The strongest storms will
pose a risk of damaging wind gusts and perhaps hail.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles northeast of
Augusta ME to 30 miles south of Worcester MA. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU5).

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 inch. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
27025.

...Hart