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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington

April 1, 1993Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Apr 1, 1993, 7:15 PM EST for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 15 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 1, 1993, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Apr 1, 1993, 7:30 PM EST
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Caroline County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 436 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 00:00Z on 1993-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 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
436 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1077 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 1, 7:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXFrederick, City of Winchester3 hr
Apr 1, 7:01 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXPage, Shenandoah3 hr
Apr 1, 7:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax, Loudoun61 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.