A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for the region just west of Evansville as the main threat appeared to be straight-line winds.

A PDS severe thunderstorm watch is very rare and usually issued for the potential of major derecho events.

The following severe thunderstorm watch was issued for a large portion of the path of the June 2012 North American derecho.

On June 16, severe thunderstorm watches and warnings were issued for Florida.

Generally, but not always, a severe thunderstorm watch or tornado watch will precede a warning.

A thunderstorm watch, like a tornado watch, is an alert that says conditions exist for formation of such storms.

A tornado watch therefore implies that it is also a severe thunderstorm watch.

Only isolated reports of damaging winds and a few tornadoes accompanied this line and no tornado or severe thunderstorm watches were issued.

Instead, as a compromise, they issued New England's first-ever severe thunderstorm watch.

Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for most of southern Ontario as a result.