severe thunderstorm watch

The first appointments starting today. With the threat of thunderstorms. Recently. It is important to remember the difference between a severe thunderstorm watch and severe thunderstorm warning. 22 News Storm Team meteorologist Chris to Zach, as has a look at the difference and how you can measure how far away lightning is from you.

Well, as we head into the evening, again, the thunderstorms are going to be the big topic for the rest of this evening overnight tonight. And again, we could see some spotty thunderstorms for the day on Tuesday when it comes to thunderstorms, though.

What is the difference between a watch and a warning? Well, a thunderstorm watch is to be prepared. You know, conditions are favorable for thunderstorms to form. This is kind of a heads up put out by the National Weather Service that there could be the potential for strong to severe thunderstorms when in terms of a thunderstorm a warning. This is when the thunderstorms. But that spotted all indicated by radar and as characteristics that could become strong to severe.

Now, when we see thunderstorms again, a couple of lightning. One thing to really recognize or to learn is how to measure how far the strike a lightning is. Now, typically, when you look at the sky and you see a strike of lightning counter around 5 or 4 seconds, that is how far the distance of lightning is from you. Every 5 seconds is about one mile. So if you count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, after seeing that bolt of lightning and you hear the sound of thunder, that lightning bolt was about one