Severe Thunderstorm Warning Vs Watch / Severe Weather Awareness Week: Flash Flood Watch vs ... : If the ingredients for bad weather are there in the atmosphere, the national weather service will issue a watch for the type of bad weather that could result (severe thunderstorm watch, flash flood watch, tornado watch.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning Vs Watch / Severe Weather Awareness Week: Flash Flood Watch vs ... : If the ingredients for bad weather are there in the atmosphere, the national weather service will issue a watch for the type of bad weather that could result (severe thunderstorm watch, flash flood watch, tornado watch. . A severe thunderstorm watch means that conditions are favorable for thunderstorms to develop in the near future that contain large hail and/or a tornado warning means that radar or a spotter indicates a likely tornado within a storm currently and is headed your way (if you're in the warning). Watches typically cover large areas like a handful of counties or an entire state. A severe thunderstorm watch is issued when severe thunderstorms are possible in and near the watch area. Spectrum news 13 meteorologist maureen mccann explains the difference between a weather watch and warning. The only difference is that the storms in the watch area are not. In