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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 496
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
140 PM EDT Tue Jul 8 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  Western Connecticut
  District Of Columbia
  Delaware
  Maryland
  New Jersey
  Far southeast New York
  Eastern Pennsylvania
  Central and eastern Virginia
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 140 PM until
  900 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely

SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are expected to develop and spread
eastward through the afternoon and evening.  The storm environment
will favor a mix of small clusters and line segments capable of
producing damaging winds of 60-70 mph.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 75
statute miles east and west of a line from 55 miles east southeast
of Lynchburg VA to 30 miles north of Newark NJ. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU6).

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
0.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A
few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 500. Mean storm motion vector
26020.

...Thompson