Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 5:34 PM EDT for Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 2000, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 5:38 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Easton, MD | |
| Jul 15, 5:38 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Easton, MD |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 629 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 152135 SVRPHL MDC011-041-152200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 534 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND. CENTRAL TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND. * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 533 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 1 INCH HAIL...3 MILES EAST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRESTON AT 545 PM... INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 3885 7614 3867 7614 3870 7586 3887 7586
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 34 min |
| Jul 14, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Talbot | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline | 35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.