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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.



&&



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

