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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 464
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
220 PM EDT Thu Jun 26 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

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

* Effective this Thursday afternoon and evening from 220 PM until
  1000 PM EDT.

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

SUMMARY...Widely scattered slow-moving thunderstorms will build
across the watch area through the afternoon.  Hot/humid conditions
will promote a risk of locally damaging wind gusts in the strongest
storms.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 70
statute miles east and west of a line from 40 miles west northwest
of Allentown PA to 15 miles south southeast of Charlottesville VA.
For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch
outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU4).

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 463...

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
03020.

...Hart