Expires:202408152015;Remove:202408152015;883829 WWUS51 KBOX 151951 SVSBOX Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Boston/Norton MA 351 PM EDT Thu Aug 15 2024 MAC009-017-027-152015- /O.CON.KBOX.SV.W.0086.000000T0000Z-240815T2015Z/ Essex MA-Worcester MA-Middlesex MA- 351 PM EDT Thu Aug 15 2024 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT FOR WEST CENTRAL ESSEX...NORTHEASTERN WORCESTER AND NORTHEASTERN MIDDLESEX COUNTIES... At 351 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Carlisle, or near Billerica, moving south at 20 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines. Locations impacted include... Lowell, Billerica, Woburn, Chelmsford, Andover, Tewksbury, Reading, Burlington, Wilmington, Westford, Acton, Concord, North Reading, Bedford, Lynnfield, Littleton, Ayer, Harvard, Boxborough, and Carlisle. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. && LAT...LON 4266 7120 4253 7106 4247 7156 4256 7155 TIME...MOT...LOC 1951Z 352DEG 16KT 4252 7134 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$ KP