Full Notification

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Southern Hunterdon County in northwestern New Jersey... Mercer County in central New Jersey... Southeastern Somerset County in northern New Jersey... Monmouth County in central New Jersey... Middlesex County in northern New Jersey... East central Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania...

* Until 215 AM EDT.

* At 113 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Plainsboro Center, or 10 miles northeast of Trenton, moving east at 10 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is possible.

* Locations impacted include... Trenton, New Brunswick, Long Branch, Asbury Park, Sandy Hook, Somerset, Middletown, Old Bridge, East Brunswick, South Brunswick, Sayreville, North Brunswick, Marlboro, Manalapan, Ewing, Tinton Falls, Holmdel, Princeton, Red Bank and Keansburg. This includes the following highways... New Jersey Turnpike between exits 8A and 10. Interstate 295 in New Jersey between mile markers 63 and 76. Garden State Parkway between mile markers 102 and 126.

* AFFECTED AREAS: MIDDLESEX, NJ ... BUCKS, PA ... HUNTERDON, NJ ... SOMERSET, NJ ... MERCER, NJ ... MONMOUTH, NJ

Instructions:

Protecting yourself from immediate threats to life and safety shall take priority. Whenever possible, as long as it does not cause greater harm, all COVID-19 protective action guidance should be followed. For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. In addition to large hail and damaging winds, frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.