National Weather Service – STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
1130 AM CDT SAT SEP 08 2012
…SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN NEW
ENGLAND INTO CENTRAL NEW YORK SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHERN PARTS OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT…
THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OK IS FORECASTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS
AND A FEW TORNADOES OVER PARTS OF WESTERN AND SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INTO CENTRAL NEW YORK SOUTHWARD ACROSS NORTHERN PARTS OF THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT.
THE AREAS MOST LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE THIS ACTIVITY INCLUDE
WESTERN AND CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
NORTHERN DELAWARE
WESTERN AND CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND
PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND WESTERN NEW HAMPSHIRE
MUCH OF NEW JERSEY
CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEW YORK
EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
MUCH OF VERMONT
ELSEWHERE…SEVERE STORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM PORTIONS OF THE NORTHEAST STATES SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTH CAROLINA.
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP WITHIN THE HUMID AIR MASS NEAR AND JUST AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT CROSSING PARTS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES. THESE STORMS WILL ORGANIZE INTO ONE OR MORE FAST MOVING SQUALL LINES CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND A FEW TORNADOES. ADDITIONAL SCATTERED SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE COLD FRONT FROM THE NEW YORK CITY AREA INTO WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS…WITH THE
RISK FOR SIGNIFICANTLY SEVERE WINDS…WILL EXIST WITHIN THE MODERATE RISK AREA THAT INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LARGER CITIES… HARTFORD CONNECTICUT… NEWARK NEW JERSEY… ALBANY AND NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK… PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA… AND BURLINGTON VERMONT.
STATE AND LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGERS ARE MONITORING THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION. THOSE IN THE THREATENED AREA ARE URGED TO REVIEW SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY RULES AND TO LISTEN TO RADIO…TELEVISION…AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR POSSIBLE WATCHES…WARNINGS…AND STATEMENTS LATER TODAY.
From NY Alert – Tornado Watch 637 Is In Effect Until 1000 PM EDT For The Following Locations Ny . New York Counties Included Are Albany Broome Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Essex Franklin Fulton Greene Hamilton Herkimer Madison Montgomery Oneida Otsego Rensselaer Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie St. Lawrence Sullivan Tioga Ulster Warren Washington
The Catskill Chronicle 
Does this mean, I ‘ll have to hide inside tonight? I am feeling the wind beginning now.