Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1990, 8:10 PM EDT for Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2490 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBWI 090014 COR
TORBWI
MDC035-041-090045-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD
810 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND
WESTERN QUEEN ANNES...NORTHERN TALBOT
RADAR IS SHOWING A THUNDERSTORM MOVING OUT KENT COUNTY INTO WESTERN
QUEEN-ANNES AND NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM MAY PRODUCE
TORNADOES AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER
OR A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR REINFORCED BUILDINGS.
PLEASE REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS AND
ASK THERM TO RELAY THE REPORT ALONG TO A WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
MILLERWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before
MDZ001>007- 082130 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 430 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF MARYLAND EXCEPT FOR GARRETT AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES AND THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IN AND CLOSEO TO THE COUNTIES THAT ARE IN THE WATCH AREA. AT 430 PM EDT RADAR AT PATUXENT RIVER WAS SHOWING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVE EAST SOUTHEAST FROM PENNSYLVANIA ACROSS THE THE MARYLAND BORDER INTO NORTHERN FREDERICK AND CARROLL COUNTIES. THESE STORMS CAUSED QUITE A BIT OF DAMAGE WHILE MOVING THROUGH PENNSYLVANIA. THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF TREES AND POWER LINES BEING DOWNED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION DURING THE TIME THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT. MILLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Howard | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Howard | 90 min |
| Jun 9, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Cecil, Harford | 58 min |
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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.