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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 448
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
325 PM EDT Fri Jul 3 2026
The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
Northern Delaware
Northeast Maryland
New Jersey
Southern New York
Central and Eastern Pennsylvania
Coastal Waters
* Effective this Friday afternoon and evening from 325 PM until
1100 PM EDT.
* Primary threats include...
Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph likely
SUMMARY...Thunderstorms are intensifying over southern New York and
northern Pennsylvania in a hot/humid air mass. These storms will
track southeastward through the afternoon and early evening, posing
a risk of locally damaging wind gusts.
The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 100
statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles northwest of
Binghamton NY to 40 miles west southwest of Wilmington DE. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU8).
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 445...WW 446...WW 447...
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
29030.
...Hart
