Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 14, 2000, 5:30 PM EST for Anne Arundel County, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2000, 5:30 PM EST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2000, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Prince George's County, MD
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLWX 142232 SVRWBC DCC001-MDC003-033-VAC013-059-510-610-142315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON 530 PM EST MON FEB 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY IN MARYLAND PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY IN MARYLAND ALEXANDRIA IN VIRGINIA ARLINGTON COUNTY IN VIRGINIA FAIRFAX COUNTY IN VIRGINIA FALLS CHURCH IN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 615 PM EST * AT 530 PM EST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER SPRINGFIELD...MOVING EAST AT 34 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FOREST HEIGHTS...OXON HILL-GLASSMANOR AT 542 PM EST CAMP SPRINGS AT 548 PM EST CORAL HILLS AT 550 PM EST CAPITOL HEIGHTS...SEAT PLEASANT AT 552 PM EST CARMODY HILLS-PEPPER MILL VILLAGE...FORESTVILLE AT 554 PM EST SEEK SAFETY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...DO NOT STAND UNDERNEATH TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED OBJECTS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AS THE STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE INTO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. .END/ ARTHUR/PAP LAT...LON 3887 7726 3870 7720 3881 7646 3905 7654 &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 14, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 2:00 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 200 PM EST MON FEB 14 2000 CDFNT SCHEDULED THRU AREA AROUND 21Z. NO DP MSTR TO WORK AND ONLY MRGL INSTBLTY. STILL MAY BE A SHRA/TSRA THRU EARLY EVE SE ZNS WHERE WE WILL HAVE 20 POPS. CYC FLO AND CAA WL RESULT IN CLDS AND FLURRIES W RDGS TNGT. P/C ELSW. NXT SHRTWV ON THE W CST WL MV E IN ZNL FLO RCHG THE OH VLY/GTLKS LATE TUE NGT THEN LFTG INTO NEW ENG LATE WED. SYS IS MVG RPDLY AND THERE WL BE NO MSTR ADVCTN INTO THE SYS FM THE GULF OR ATLC. ONLY WK VVS. WL GO W/INC CLDS TUE NGT ASSOCD W/WAA AHEAD OF CDFNT. WL GO W/ 30 POP SHRA ON THE FAR W RDGS WED. ELSW...P/S. .LWX...SCA MD PTN OF CHES BAY/TIDAL POTOMAC
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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.