Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1994, 6:33 PM EDT for Harford County, Maryland. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 1994, 6:33 PM EDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1994, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harford County, MD
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 651 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1094 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 2:34 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
MDZ025-024-142200- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 230 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1994 ...HEADS UP...RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE WEST... AT 1.00 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT STERLING VIRGINIA AND AT PATUXENT RIVER MARYLAND WERE MONITORING DEVELOPING RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA. THESE ARE THE FIRST OF THE AFTER- NOON. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 10 MILES. MORE RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECASTED ACROSS MARYLAND AND THE EASTERN SHORE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. TODAYS THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BE PREPREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY INDOORS. AVOID USING CORDED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWED AREAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SITUATION AND ISSU FURTHER ADVISORIES AND STATEMENTS AS WARRANTED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISON STATIONS OR LISTEN TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO IN YOUR AREA FOR THESE UPDATES... RAD
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
MDZ025-024-142200- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 300 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1994 ...SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN MARYLAND AT 3.00 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT STERLING AND PATUXENT RIVER WERE SHOWING INCREASED RAINSHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT WAS SPREADING INTO CENTRAL MARYLAND...OVER THE SOUTHERN BAY AND OVER VIRGINIAS PORTION OF THE EASTERN SHORE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE CELLS OVER THE EASTERN SHORE REMAINED SCATTERED THE DEVELOPMENT DOES SIGNAL THE BEGINNING OF THIS AFTERNOONS OUTBREAK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BE PREPREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY INDOORS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. ONCE INSIDE AVOID UISING CORDED CORDED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWED AREAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE REGION FOR THE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOV ACROSS THE REGION. FURTHER ADVISORIES AND STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS WARRANTED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISON STATIONS OR LISTEN TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO YOUR AREA FOR THESE UPDATES... RAD
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 3:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
MDZ025-024-142200- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT 300 PM EDT THU JUL 14 1994 ...SCATTERED RAINSHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN MARYLAND AT 3.00 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADARS AT STERLING AND PATUXENT RIVER WERE SHOWING INCREASED RAINSHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THAT WAS SPREADING INTO CENTRAL MARYLAND...OVER THE SOUTHERN BAY AND OVER VIRGINIAS PORTION OF THE EASTERN SHORE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES PER HOUR. ALTHOUGH THE CELLS OVER THE EASTERN SHORE REMAINED SCATTERED THE DEVELOPMENT DOES SIGNAL THE BEGINNING OF THIS AFTERNOONS OUTBREAK. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. BE PREPREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY INDOORS AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. ONCE INSIDE AVOID UISING CORDED CORDED ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWED AREAS. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE REGION FOR THE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND MOV ACROSS THE REGION. FURTHER ADVISORIES AND STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS WARRANTED. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISON STATIONS OR LISTE.N TO THE NOAA WEATHER RADIO YOUR AREA FOR THESE UPDATES... RAD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Harford | 40 min |
| Jul 14, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Cecil | 68 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.