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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 6, 2002Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2002, 4:46 PM EDT for Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 44 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 6, 2002, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Talbot County, MD

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 5:01 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 61 M	St Michaels, 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
Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 326 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -110 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS51 KPHI 062046
TORPHI
MDC041-062130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
445 PM EDT THU JUN 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT.

* AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES WEST OF ST.   
  MICHAELS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN SIGHTED
  WITH THIS STORM IN CHESAPEAKE BAY NEAR CALVERT COUNTY. THIS STORM
  COULD PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ST. MICHAELS AT 455 PM.
  EASTON AT 505 PM.

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 800 PM THURSDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND
SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY.

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent	42 min
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

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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.