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Two tornado watches were issued later that day, but the main watch was a PDS severe thunderstorm watch that was issued across the area as well, indicating the possibility of tornadoes and severe wind gusts to 105 miles per hour (169 km/h).
PDS severe thunderstorm watches are issued when there is a higher than normal risk of severe thunderstorm winds capable of major structural damage (in addition to large hail and perhaps a few isolated tornadoes), usually due to a strong and persistent derecho. These watches are very rare (accounting an average of only two each year), as the ...
A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the scale from one to five, a high risk is a level five; thus, high risks are issued only when forecasters at the SPC are confident of a major severe weather outbreak.
A severe thunderstorm watch means a severe thunderstorm is possible in and near the watch area. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Tornado watch vs. warning: The meaning ...
March 31, 2022 at 7:23 PM. Most of New Jersey is under a severe thunderstorm watch through midnight as a cold front moves across the state Thursday night, according to the National Weather Service ...
A severe thunderstorm watch (SAME code: SVA) is a statement issued by weather forecasting agencies to advise the public that atmospheric conditions in a given region may lead to the development of severe thunderstorms within (or near) the region over a period of several hours.
Severe thunderstorm watch vs. severe thunderstorm warning. Severe thunderstorms — which are defined by the National Weather Service as storms with “winds of 58 mph or higher and/or hail 1 inch ...
Between March 29–31, 2022, a line of strong to severe thunderstorms and multiple supercells swept through portions of the United States and brought widespread wind damage and several strong tornadoes across a large part of the Midwestern, Southern, and Eastern United States.