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WWUS51 KBOX 090056
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Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA
856 PM EDT Wed May 8 2024

CTC013-015-090130-
/O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0014.000000T0000Z-240509T0130Z/
Windham CT-Tolland CT-
856 PM EDT Wed May 8 2024

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM EDT
FOR WINDHAM AND NORTHEASTERN TOLLAND COUNTIES...

At 856 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Chaplin, or
near Mansfield, moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Quarter size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected.

Locations impacted include...
Mansfield, Windham, Plainfield, Willimantic, Killingly, Coventry,
Putnam, Brooklyn, Woodstock, Willington, Columbia, Canterbury,
Ashford, Pomfret, Sterling, Chaplin, Hampton, Eastford, and Scotland.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature`s leading
killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to
be struck by lightning.

&&

LAT...LON 4193 7182 4168 7181 4171 7223 4171 7230
      4194 7229
TIME...MOT...LOC 0056Z 276DEG 33KT 4176 7217

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...1.00 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...<50 MPH

$$

Frank