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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 22, 2001Cecil County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2001, 7:28 PM EDT for Cecil County, Maryland. It was in force for 47 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
Jun 22, 2001, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Cecil County, MD

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 7:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ELiberty Grove, 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 22, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 17 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 578 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2001-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
578 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 222329
SVRPHI
MDC015-230015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
728 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CECIL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND.

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.

* AT 726 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 4 MILES SOUTH OF RISING SUN...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTH EAST AT 815 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS 
PATH...TAKE COVER 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEAST MARYLAND AND SOUTHEAST
PENNSYLVANIA.

$$

LAT...LON 3956 7583 3943 7602 3972 7624 3972 7602

GSS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil35 min
Jun 22, 7:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHICecil113 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.