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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 14, 1989Wicomico County, Worcester County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1989, 6:59 PM EDT for Wicomico County, Worcester County, Maryland. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1989, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1989, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

Counties Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1989-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 9 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1989-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMontgomery66 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's60 min
Jun 14, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCarroll, Howard67 min
Jun 14, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel67 min
Jun 14, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Carroll, Howard55 min
Jun 14, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCaroline, Dorchester, Talbot51 min
Jun 14, 7:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXSomerset, Worcester69 min
Jun 14, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax58 min
Jun 14, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFauquier, Prince William66 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.