Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1992, 3:22 PM EDT for Calvert County, Maryland. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1992, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1992, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calvert County, MD
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KWBC 041924 TORWBC MDC009-042000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WASHINGTON DC 322 PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WASHINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MARYLAND ...NORTH CALVERT COUNTY AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER AND THE TIDAL POTOMAC RIVER THE DOPPLER RADAR AT STERLING VIRGINIA INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING EXTREME NORTHERN CALBERT COUNTY THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED A TORNADO OVER PRENCE GEORGE COUNTY VIRGINIA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR JPIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
What 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
Local storm report, Aug 4, 12:17 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
WBCLSRBWI
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE, MD
STORM REPORT
1220PM EDT TUE AUG 4 1992
ADDITIONAL REPORTS FROM STORM DAMAGE OF JULY 31 1992
DATE/TIME LOCATION/EVENT
31/2115UTC HOWARD COUNTY-WEST FRIENDSHIP,ELLICOTT CITY...
LARGE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN, AN INCH AND A
QUARTER OF RAIN IN 30 MINUTES.
31/2255UTC TALBOT COUNTY/NORTHEAST SECTION...LARGE TREES DOWN,
A COUPLE OF HOUSES STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
DAVIS
HThe office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 65 min |
| Aug 3, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 46 min |
| Aug 3, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll | 69 min |
| Aug 4, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 40 min |
| Aug 4, 2:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 35 min |
| Aug 4, 3:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 67 min |
| Aug 4, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Queen Anne's, Talbot | 31 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.