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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 607

September 6, 20259 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Sep 6, 2025, 1:13 PM EDT for 9 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 2025, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2025, 7:47 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 91 counties

Capitol Planning Region, CT, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Berkshire County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Penobscot County, ME, Piscataquis County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, Waldo County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, York County, PA

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
50%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
20%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

49 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess, Ulster46 min
Sep 6, 1:23 PM EDTTornado WarningALYColumbia, Dutchess37 min
Sep 6, 1:46 PM EDTTornado WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region44 min
Sep 6, 2:14 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXFranklin, Hampshire31 min
Sep 6, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset46 min
Sep 6, 2:15 PM EDTTornado WarningALYBerkshire20 min
Sep 6, 2:18 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXHampden, Hampshire42 min
Sep 6, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region56 min
Sep 6, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region54 min
Sep 6, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region61 min
Sep 6, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton21 min
Sep 6, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen, Essex51 min
Sep 6, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan65 min
Sep 6, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXHudson19 min
Sep 6, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Somerset23 min
Sep 6, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore, Harford28 min
Sep 6, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester43 min
Sep 6, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester55 min
Sep 6, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXHudson, Union39 min
Sep 6, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore, Harford20 min
Sep 6, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Worcester35 min
Sep 6, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex, Worcester44 min
Sep 6, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region55 min
Sep 6, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCecil, Harford38 min
Sep 6, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham48 min
Sep 6, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region45 min
Sep 6, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region45 min
Sep 6, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCumberland, Oxford, York42 min
Sep 6, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXHudson, Union52 min
Sep 6, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster, York45 min
Sep 6, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester59 min
Sep 6, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Ocean38 min
Sep 6, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXYork30 min
Sep 6, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester29 min
Sep 6, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Oxford42 min
Sep 6, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford42 min
Sep 6, 3:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region54 min
Sep 6, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham36 min
Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCumberland, York50 min
Sep 6, 4:05 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXMiddlesex, Worcester40 min
Sep 6, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's40 min
Sep 6, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Suffolk55 min
Sep 6, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region65 min
Sep 6, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region55 min
Sep 6, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden31 min
Sep 6, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester52 min
Sep 6, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXBristol, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Worcester54 min
Sep 6, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle32 min
Sep 6, 6:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonmouth4 hr

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2025-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 133 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

735 
WWUS20 KWNS 061711
SEL7  
SPC WW 061711
CTZ000-DEZ000-MAZ000-MDZ000-MEZ000-NHZ000-NJZ000-NYZ000-
PAZ000-RIZ000-VTZ000-CWZ000-070000-

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 607
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
110 PM EDT Sat Sep 6 2025

The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of 
  Connecticut
  Delaware
  Massachusetts
  Northeast Maryland
  Western and Central Maine
  Southern New Hampshire
  New Jersey
  Southeast New York
  Eastern Pennsylvania
  Rhode Island
  Southeast Vermont
  Coastal Waters

* Effective this Saturday afternoon and evening from 110 PM until
  800 PM EDT.

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

SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms are beginning to develop along a
boundary from central Maryland northeastward into parts of New
York/Vermont.  These storms will intensify through the afternoon,
with locally severe storms expected.  Damaging winds will be the
main risk with the stronger cells, although a few could also produce
hail and perhaps a tornado or two.

The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60
statute miles north and south of a line from 45 miles west of
Wilmington DE to 25 miles east of Bangor ME. For a complete
depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update
(WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

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.

&&

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
24030.

...Hart

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 11:56 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Sep 6, 3:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Sep 6, 5:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Sussex56 min
Sep 6, 1:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCalvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's2 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.