Severe Thunderstorm Watch in Effect Until 9PM Tuesday

Thunderstorms on a weather radar the afternoon of June 21, 2016. (Credit: Hi-Def Radar)

A severe thunderstorm watch is in effect of all of Ocean County through 9 p.m. Tuesday, the National Weather Service’s office in Mount Holly announced.

Thunderstorms could include wind gusts to near 60 m.p.h., hail and cloud-to-ground lightning, the weather service said. After the watch ends, scattered showers and thunderstorms will remain in the area before midnight, then a slight chance of showers between midnight and 1 a.m.

The storms will move out overnight and it is expected to be sunny on Wednesday.

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