Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 15, 2000Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 8:37 PM EDT for Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2000, 8:37 PM EDT (00:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Talbot County, MD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 15, 8:45 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EChestertown, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 15, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 2000-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 759 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

242 
WUUS51 KPHI 160039
SVRPHL
MDC029-035-041-160115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
837 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND.
  QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND.
  KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND.

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 834 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ROCK HALL TO 19 MILES WEST OF ST. MICHAELS...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  STEVENSVILLE AT 855 PM...
  ROCK HALL...ST. MICHAELS AT 900 PM...
  GRASONVILLE...OXFORD AT 905 PM...
  BETTERTON...CENTREVILLE...CHESTERTOWN...EASTON AT 910 PM...
  CHURCH HILL AT 915 PM...

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THESE STORMS. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
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 3940 7658 3870 7663 3867 7604 3935 7589

GSS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.