Severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 5:45 p.m.

ByKrystal Knapp

At 5 p.m., severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Pennington to near Woodstown, moving east at 30 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.

Wind gusts of 60 miles per hour are possible. Damage to roofs, siding, trees, and power lines is possible. For your protection, move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.

Mercer, Somerset, Middlesex, Burlington, Monmouth, and Bucks counties could experience severe weather conditions.

A flash flood watch is also in effect until 8 a.m. on July 2.

If you lose power and you are a PSE&G customer, Text OUT to 4PSEG (47734), report it online, report the outage through Amazon’s Alexa, through the PSE&G app or call 1-800-436-PSEG (7734).

If you lose power and you are a JCP&L customer, call 1-888-LIGHTSS (1-888-544-4877).

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Krystal Knapp is the founding editor of Planet Princeton. Follow her on Twitter @krystalknapp. She can be reached via email at editor AT planetprinceton.com. Send all letters to the editor and press releases to that email address.