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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 5, 2002Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2002, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Caroline County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1191 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2002-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 129 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 060145
SVRPHI
MDC011-060215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
945 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND.

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT.

* AT 939 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 13 MILES WEST OF DENTON...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DENTON AT 955 PM.
  GOLDSBORO AT 1000 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 3904 7587 3894 7593 3885 7590 3888 7575
          3909 7576

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil, Kent42 min
Jun 5, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's51 min
Jun 5, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHITalbot50 min
Jun 6, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent53 min
Jun 6, 4:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPHITalbot44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.