Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 9:03 PM EDT for Cecil County, Kent County, Maryland; New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 42 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, 9:03 PM EDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties New Castle County, DE, Cecil County, MD, Kent County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Betterton, 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 nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 950 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 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 060103 SVRPHI DEC003-MDC015-029-060145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 903 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN CECIL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. NORTHEASTERN KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN NORTHERN DELAWARE. * UNTIL 945 PM EDT. * AT 859 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 5 MILES EAST OF BETTERTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MIDDLETOWN AT 920 PM. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 3946 7604 3924 7614 3935 7549 3955 7559
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Talbot | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline | 30 min |
| Jun 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Talbot | 44 min |
| Jun 6, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 66 min |
| Jun 6, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 42 min |
| Jun 6, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.