Wind warning late tonight

Boyd

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
339 PM EST SUN NOV 17 2013

...A BRIEF PERIOD OF WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 40 TO 60 MPH MAY OCCUR
BETWEEN 1 AM AND 6 AM MONDAY...

A SQUALL LINE RACING EAST FROM THE OHIO VALLEY SHOULD CROSS OUR
AREA EARLY MONDAY MORNING WITH SHOWER ASSOCIATED GUSTS BRIEFLY
EXCEEDING 40 MPH. A FEW POCKETS OF DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE
WHICH WOULD INCLUDE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND POWER OUTAGES.

THE SQUALL LINE...EVEN IN ITS DECAYING STATE...SHOULD BE CROSSING
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN MARYLAND BETWEEN 1 AM AND 3 AM AND
THEN CUT ACROSS NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE BETWEEN 3 AM AND 6 AM.

IF THIS DAMAGING SQUALL LINE CONTINUES TO LOOK POTENT IN ITS APPROACH
TO THE MID ATLANTIC STATES...WARNINGS WOULD BE ISSUED DURING THE LATE
NIGHT HOURS.

THUNDER WILL NOT NECESSARILY ACCOMPANY ANY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.
NEVERTHELESS...TO HIGHLIGHT THE POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WIND... A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MAY BE ISSUED FOR OUR AREA OVERNIGHT.

BE PREPARED LATE TONIGHT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG WIND GUSTS...
SPOTTY POWER OUTAGES...TREE AND PROPERTY DAMAGE.

IF DAMAGE OCCURS...THIS COULD MEAN TRAVEL DELAYS FOR THE MORNING
RUSH HOUR.
 

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Piney
Mar 24, 2004
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2,143
Coastal NJ
Should clean the rain gutters out :)

My son was hunkered down for a good part of the day in eastern IN. He stopped driving around 3pm due to the strong winds blowing the trailer around. Reports of a whirling thing 5 miles from him. IL really got clobbered. There were 90 tornado sightings confirmed. I am always amazed at the damage done by tornado's.

http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
 

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Piney
Mar 24, 2004
8,837
2,143
Coastal NJ
Oh well, the leaves are still in the rain gutters and they have been joined by a trillion or so of their friends.
 
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