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Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued August 8 at 6:21PM EDT until August 8 at 8:00PM EDT by NWS Boston/Norton MA
This is a moderate-significance severe thunderstorm watch event affecting Windham, CT; Worcester, MA; Providence, RI, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
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- Severe Thunderstorm Watch
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- To end
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Affected area map
This alert covers multiple forecast zones — the source publishes no single perimeter, so each marker shows the center of one affected zone reported by NOAA / National Weather Service (Windham, CT; Worcester, MA; Providence, RI). The markers are all part of this ONE alert, not separate incidents. Pan and zoom to explore the map.
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Windham, CT; Worcester, MA; Providence, RI · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.
2026-08-08 22:27 UTC · snapshot 2 of 2
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Latest updates
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- Bulletin NWS Boston/Norton MA
Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued
Hartford, CT; Tolland, CT; Franklin, MA; Hampden, MA; Hampshire, MA
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