Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2002, 5:32 PM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 43 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
- May 12, 2002, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2002, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 57 E | Pomona, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 122132 SVRPHI MDC029-035-122215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 530 PM EDT SUN MAY 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. NORTH CENTRAL QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 525 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 19 MILES WEST OF ROCK HALL...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. DOPPLER RADAR IS ESTIMATING WINDS OF BETWEEN 60 AND 75 MPH ARE OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM ABOUT 5000 FEET ABOVE THE GROUND. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ROCK HALL AT 540 PM. CHURCH HILL...CHESTERTOWN AT 550 PM. SUDLERSVILLE AT 555 PM. MILLINGTON AT 600 PM. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER 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 1000 PM SUNDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. $$ LAT...LON 3927 7659 3909 7659 3910 7587 3933 7581
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline | 37 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.