The National Weather Service posted a Tornado Watch for several counties in the New York City metro area on Monday afternoon.

The watch includes Dutchess, Sullivan and Ulster Counties in New York and Pike County in Pennsylvania.

The watch is in effect until 8 p.m.

The watch means that there could be conditions that make it possible for a tornado to form. It does not mean that a tornado is immanent.

There are several other counties that are not in the Fox 5 viewing area that are under the watch.

In New York they included Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otesego, Tioga and Tompkins Counties.

In Northeast Pennsylvania Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquenhanna, Wayne and Wyoming Counties are also included in the watch.

(YWN Sullivan COunty Newsroom)