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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wakefield, VA

May 22, 2001Somerset County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2001, 7:54 PM EDT for Somerset County, Maryland. It was in force for 21 min. 1 report 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: May 22, 2001, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 21 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Whole counties

County Somerset County, MD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 8:08 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Oriole, MD	Large trees down.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 22, 7:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KAKQ 222354
TORAKQ
MDC039-230015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
754 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOMERSET COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MARYLAND

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 754 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF CHAMP...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR
  CHAMP AND MANOKIN AT 755 PM
  ORIOLE AND MONIE AT 800 PM
  PRINCESS ANNE AT 810 PM

GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

CULLEN
&&
LAT...LON 3816 7599 3803 7583 3814 7557 3827 7568

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	33 min
May 22, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	16 min
May 22, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester	36 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.