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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2000Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jul 28, 2000, 10:37 PM EDT for Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2000, 10:37 PM EDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Talbot County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 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 00:00Z on 2000-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KPHI 290241
FFWPHI
MDC041-290500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1037 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT.

* AT 1034 PM EDT...TALBOT COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTED
  HEAVY FLOODING IN WESTERN TALBOT COUNTY...ESPECIALLY ON
  TILGHMAN/S ISLAND. UP TO 1 FOOT OF WATER WAS REPORTED ON STATE
  ROUTE 33 AND MAIN STREET IN SAINT MICHAELS. NATIONAL WEATHER
  SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATED STORM TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 6 INCHES
  IN THE AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT
QUICKLY. MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY
IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN WATER BEGINS RISING.

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

$$
LAT...LON 3886 7619 3868 7618 3867 7646 3891 7646

TFGu

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 9:01 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHITalbot119 min
Jul 28, 9:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHITalbot25 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.