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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 5, 2002Anne Arundel County, Calvert County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 8:43 PM EDT for Anne Arundel County, Calvert County, Maryland. It was in force for 62 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 5, 2002, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Calvert County, MD

The radar

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 5, 8:45 PM EDTThunderstorm WindSouth Portion, MDSeveral trees and power lines were downed.

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 5, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

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 Jun 5, 3:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 3:00 PM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
300 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THRU THU NIGHT...

THE PRODUCTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED - NOW ITS JUST WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO
HAPPEN. DAYTIME HEATING/HI RH HAS PUSHED SFC BASED CAPE OVR 3000 IN
MUCH OF THE CWA. ANY CELLS THAT DO DVLP COULD BE PULSE SVR. BETTER
CHC WOULD BE LATER THIS AFTN/EVE AS FNTL BAND DRAWS CLOSER. BOXES
HAVE BEEN ISSUED ACROSS OH/KY...AND XPCT THESE WL CONTINUE BEING
ISSUED INTO THE EVENING HRS. SPC IS CONSIDERING BOXING MUCH OF OUR
CWA. STAY TUNED...

MDLS CONTINUALLY SLOW THE PROGRESS OF THE FNT...W/ WK WV FORMING OVR
SRN VA THURS AFTN. DAY 2 OUTLOOK CONTINUES CHC OF SVR IN THE SE
CORNER OF THE CWA...AND GNRL TSTMS ACROSS RMDR OF AREA THURS. WL
CONTINUE POPS DURING THU/THU NGT. TEMPS COOLER ON THURS W/ INCRSD
CLD CVR.

WOODY

LONG TERM...FRI THRU NEXT WED...

SHORTWAVE PUSHES THRU THE AREA FRI AND SHOVES THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY
AND ASSOCD SFC WAVES TO THE SE OF THE AREA. HGTS RISE OVR THE
WEEKEND AS STG UPR LVL RIDGE BUILDS ALG THE E COAST. AT THE
SFC...HIGH PRES BUILDS INTO THE AREA LATE FRI INTO THE WEEKEND THEN
SHIFTS OFFSHR BY MON. UPR LVL RDG SHIFTS OFFSHR BY TUE/WED AND NEXT
UPR LVL TROF MOVES INTO THE AREA. THE ASSOCD SFC FNT WILL MOVE ACRS
THE REGION WED.

TREND HAS BEEN FOR THE MODELS TO SLOW DOWN THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY FOR
LATE THU AND FRI. WILL KEEP CHC OF SHRA GOING INTO EARLY FRI MORNING
IN AREAS E OF THE BLUE RDG. MODELS UNANIMOUSLY CLR THINGS OUT FOR
LATE FRI WITH CLR SKIES OVR THE WEEKEND. AIR MASS OVR THE AREA WILL
BE PLEASANT BY JUNE STANDARDS. ONLY THING TO WATCH FOR IS THE
ONSHORE FLOW BUT WITH SFC HIGH OVRHD...THINK SUBSIDENCE WILL RULE SO
CLR FCST.

SOME CI COMING OVR THE RDG ON MON BUT STILL M/S. AIR MASS SHOULD
BECOME UNSTABLE AS UPR LVL RDG AND SFC HIGH SLIDE OFFSHR SO WILL
HAVE CHC SHRA/TSRA BEGINNING TUE AFT/EVE WITH A BETTER CHC WED AS
CDFNT MOVES THRU THE AREA.

WITH SUCH A STRONG UPR LVL RDG AND HIGH HEIGHTS LATE IN THE WEEKEND
AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...WENT A BIT ABV MRF MAX TEMPS AND EVEN I MAY
NOT HAVE GONE WARM ENOUGH.

WALSTON

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
609 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0430 PM    INWOOD                    WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   BERKELEY                       TREE DOWN ON HOUSE

JLW
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
622 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0545 PM    BERRYVILLE                VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   CLARKE                         TREE DOWN

JLW
Local storm report, Jun 5, 6:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
624 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0615 PM    PHILOMONT                 VA   WIND DAMAGE
06/05/02   LOUDOUN                        TREES DOWN

JLW
Local storm report, Jun 5, 7:52 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX67 min
Jun 5, 8:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX68 min
Jun 5, 8:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX68 min
Jun 6, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMadison40 min
Jun 6, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper64 min
Jun 6, 2:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCulpeper, Orange40 min
Jun 6, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX49 min
Jun 6, 2:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX49 min
Jun 6, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince William, Stafford47 min
Jun 6, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFauquier39 min
Jun 6, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX91 min
Jun 6, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX29 min
Jun 6, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax53 min
Jun 6, 3:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX31 min
Jun 6, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX89 min
Jun 6, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX89 min
Jun 6, 4:01 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX89 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXClarke40 min
Jun 6, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXLoudoun41 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAlbemarle, Greene, Madison, Orange39 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX46 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX46 min
Jun 6, 5:31 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier44 min
Jun 6, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXOrange45 min
Jun 6, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXStafford48 min
Jun 6, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince William43 min
Jun 6, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX25 min
Jun 6, 6:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX59 min
Jun 5, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's40 min
Jun 6, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel38 min
Jun 6, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Howard, Prince George's46 min
Jun 6, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's78 min
Jun 6, 4:32 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCalvert28 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXWashington49 min
Jun 6, 4:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXFrederick40 min
Jun 6, 5:23 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCarroll37 min
Jun 6, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMontgomery51 min
Jun 6, 5:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXBaltimore, City of Baltimore40 min
Jun 6, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHoward38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.