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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 26, 2001Charles County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 3:32 AM EDT for Charles County, Maryland. It was in force for 43 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: May 26, 2001, 3:32 AM EDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2001, 4:15 AM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

County Charles County, MD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 3:33 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Newburg, MD	Trees were downed at the intersection of Route 301 and 234.
May 26, 3:42 AM EDT	Hail 0.88	Waldorf, MD	Marble to nickel sized hail fell.

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 26, 2:37 AM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 2:37 AM EDT, 55 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
237 AM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001

ENERGY CIRCULATING ARND CUTOFF LOW CONTS TO BE CULPRIT THIS CYCLE.
RADARS ACTV FOR THIS ELY HR...W/ LINE OF STRONG SHRA/TSRA FM EZF
SSW. MDL FCSTS KEEP XCLT LIFT OVR AREA THRU OVNGT INTO THE MRNG...W/
SPD AND DIR SHEAR AND LLVL CONVGC BEING THE INSTIGATORS. H8 JET WKNS
DRNG AFTN...AND THRML INSTAB RMNS LESS THAN IDEAL...BUT DYNAMICS
SHUD MAKE UP FOR IT. CRRNT SCENARIO HAS PROVEN THAT ACTVTY IS
SELF-SUSTAINING...A WORKED OVR ATMOS WONT KILL IT.

S/WV MVS TO THE E ARND MDNGT. W/ LACK OF LLJ...HOPEFULLY WL BE ABLR
TO GET A REPRIEVE TNGT...W/ ANTHR IMPLS TRIGGERING YET AGN TMRW.
DYNAMICS A BIT LESS...BUT THRML INSTAB A BIT MORE. LIKE CHC
POPS...BTTR TO W.

OVRALL...DIDNT STRAY FAR FM FWC MOS GUID. CONFIDENCE NOT GREAT ENUF
TIMING IMPLS TO GET TOO DETAILED IN WRDG. NO CHGS TO XTNDD THIS GO
ARND.

WL TRY TO GET ENTIRE PKG OUT THE DOOR BY 330 AM. GDAY

FCSTID = 50...HTS
DCA   75  59  79  60 /  60  50  30  30
BWI   74  57  79  59 /  60  50  30  30
MRB   74  56  74  55 /  60  50  30  30
IAD   75  56  77  57 /  60  50  30  30
CHO   74  55  79  58 /  40  30  30  30
HGR   73  55  72  55 /  60  50  30  30
NHK   75  60  80  62 /  60  50  30  30

.LWX...
DC...NONE.
MD...NONE.
VA...NONE.
WV...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Frederick	119 min
May 26, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	33 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.