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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Baltimore/Washington

August 4, 1992Anne Arundel County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Aug 4, 1992, 3:23 PM EDT for Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1992, 3:23 PM EDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1992, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Anne Arundel County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 72 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 12 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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 6 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.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax38 min
Aug 4, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFairfax20 min
Aug 3, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXWashington58 min
Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXFrederick65 min
Aug 3, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick65 min
Aug 3, 10:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick46 min
Aug 3, 11:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCarroll69 min
Aug 4, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's40 min
Aug 4, 2:55 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXPrince George's35 min
Aug 4, 3:22 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCalvert38 min
Aug 4, 3:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXQueen Anne's, Talbot31 min
Aug 3, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBerkeley61 min
Aug 3, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXJefferson31 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.