Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 7:44 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 46 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dorchester County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado F3 | Taylors Is, MD | Tornado path length 16-18 miles. One house and several outbuildings destroyed near Hip Roof Road. Most of the damage along tornado path rated F0 to F1. |
| Apr 28, 8:15 PM EDT | Hail 2.5 | Church Creek, MD | Golfball to tennis ball size hail. Largest hail was either egg shaped or disk shaped. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 282344 TORAKQ MDC019-290030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 744 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MARYLAND * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 744 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF TAYLORS ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR TAYLORS ISLAND AT 750 PM MADISON AND HONGA AT 755 PM WOOLFORD AT 800 PM CHURCH CREEK AT 805 PM ANDREWS AND CAMBRIDGE AT 810 PM BUCKTOWN AT 815 PM GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ CULLEN && LAT...LON 3852 7663 3840 7647 3826 7600 3860 7596
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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.