3:00PM (Sunday): A reader has just informed YWN that there is a sever storm producing large hail on Route 17, in the area of Wurtsboro.

The Fire Department is responding to numerous reports of trees and wires down in the area.

The following a a statement from the National Weather Service:

STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY…

* AT 244 PM EDT… NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL… AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HAVEN… AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR… WURTSBORO AND HIGHVIEW AT 300 PM EDT… MT VERNON AT 305 PM EDT… PHILLIPSPORT AT 310 PM EDT…

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

(YWN Catskills Newsroom)