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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Baltimore/Washington

September 26, 1994Calvert County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT for Calvert County, Maryland. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 1994, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1994, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
49 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, 9.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1994-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 177 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 1994-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
177 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 26, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXSpotsylvania42 min
Sep 26, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXSpotsylvania, Stafford52 min
Sep 26, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles51 min
Sep 26, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles, Prince George's45 min
Sep 26, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXSaint Mary's45 min
Sep 26, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCalvert52 min
Sep 26, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot33 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.