Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 8:21 PM EDT for Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 44 min. 4 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, 8:21 PM EDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 9:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wicomico County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Quantico, MD | Tornado (F0) downed trees and sheared off numerous tree branches along 4 mile path that ended 2 miles southwest of Quantico. Track suggests damage was from the same tornado that affected Dorchester county. |
| Apr 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebron, MD | Several trees down. |
| Apr 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Hebron, MD | |
| Apr 28, 8:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Salisbury, MD | Trees down on two houses. |
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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 2144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 814 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 248 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.3
- Supercell composite
- 12.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KAKQ 290021 TORAKQ MDC045-290105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 821 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WICOMICO COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MARYLAND * UNTIL 905 PM EDT * AT 821 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF TYASKIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR WETIPQUIN AND WHITEHAVEN AT 825 PM ROYAL OAK AND GREEN HILL AT 830 PM CATCHPENNY AND ALLEN AT 840 PM MARDELA SPRINGS AND FRUITLAND AT 845 PM HEBRON AND SHAD POINT AT 850 PM GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. $$ CULLEN && LAT...LON 3854 7571 3825 7596 3827 7557
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 46 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.