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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 13, 2000Baltimore County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT for Baltimore County, Maryland. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2000, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

County Baltimore County, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 13, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 680 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -169 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.7

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The text

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

043 
WFUS51 KLWX 132106
TORWBC
MDC005-132130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
505 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL BALTIMORE COUNTY IN NORTHERN MARYLAND

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  COCKEYSVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF BALTIMORE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  KINGSVILLE AT 520 PM EDT...

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, Montgomery	50 min
May 13, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford	35 min
May 13, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Harford	47 min
May 13, 5:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Harford	38 min
May 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	65 min
May 13, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	29 min
May 13, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Carroll	66 min
May 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	33 min
May 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Howard, City of Baltimore	34 min
May 13, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Charles, Prince George's	43 min
May 13, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, City of Baltimore	40 min
May 13, 7:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Harford	40 min
May 13, 7:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford	110 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.