Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Pittsburgh, PA
NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2001, 4:41 PM EDT for Garrett County, Maryland. It was in force for 49 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
- Jul 10, 2001, 4:41 PM EDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2001, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Pittsburgh, PA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garrett County, MD
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Grantsville, MD | A weak F0 tornado touched down about 2 miles northeast of Grantsville. The tornado moved southeast along a sporadic 4-mile long path to around 5 ½ miles east of Grantsville. Maximum winds along the 40-yard wide path were estimated to be around 70 MPH. Damag |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1057 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KPBZ 102044 TORPBZ MDC023-102130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 441 PM EDT TUE JUL 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GARRETT COUNTY IN MARYLAND * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 441 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EXTREME NORTHEASTERN GARRETT COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR GRANTSVILLE AT 4:55 PM. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF T~HE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Pittsburgh, PA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.