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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 27, 1994Harford County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1994, 9:59 PM EDT for Harford County, Maryland. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1994, 9:59 PM EDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 1994, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

County Harford County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KWBC 280201
TORWBC
MDC025-280230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WASHINGTON DC
959 PM EDT WED JUL 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WASHINGTON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND
 
   ...HARFORD COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
 
AT 958 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED AT INTERSTATE-95 NORTHEAST OF THE
BALTIMORE-HARFORD COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH. PEOPLE IN HARFORD COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER AT ONCE.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE 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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE
INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO
A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR
BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLO0WS.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Calvert	33 min
Jul 27, 8:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Prince George's	26 min
Jul 27, 9:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Kent	28 min
Jul 27, 9:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Harford	2 hr

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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.