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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 27, 1994Charles County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1994, 6:02 PM EDT for Charles County, Maryland. It was in force for 28 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1994, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Charles County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 1994-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1414 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXKing George, Spotsylvania, Stafford56 min
Jul 27, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXStafford28 min
Jul 27, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCharles38 min
Jul 27, 7:08 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXPrince George's37 min
Jul 27, 7:35 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXPrince George's25 min
Jul 27, 7:44 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCharles31 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.