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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 562
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
115 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of
  District Of Columbia
  Delaware
  Maryland
  New Jersey
  Southeast New York
  Southern into Eastern Pennsylvania
  Northern and Eastern Virginia
  Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 115 PM until
  800 PM EDT.

* Primary threats include...
  Scattered damaging wind gusts to 65 mph possible
  Isolated large hail events to 1 inch in diameter possible

SUMMARY...Scattered to numerous thunderstorms are forecast to
develop and intensify this afternoon.  Several clusters of
thunderstorms will likely focus a risk for strong to severe wind
gusts capable of wind damage.  This activity will likely persist
into the early evening before diminishing or moving east of the
coast.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 95
statute miles east and west of a line from 10 miles east northeast
of Allentown PA to 50 miles southwest of Patuxent River MD. For a
complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline
update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU2).

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 55 knots. A few
cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 550. Mean storm motion vector
27020.

...Smith