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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 265, NWS Baltimore/Washington

November 5, 2003Howard County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 5, 2003, 3:35 PM EST for Howard County, Maryland. It was in force for 40 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: Nov 5, 2003, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 2003, 4:15 PM EST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Howard County, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 Nov 4, 3:50 PM EST, 23 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 4, 3:50 PM EST, 23 hours 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 2:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier, Loudoun	60 min
Nov 5, 3:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Augusta, Nelson, City of Waynesboro	45 min
Nov 5, 4:03 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	LWX		87 min
Nov 5, 4:25 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Fairfax, Loudoun	2 hr
Nov 5, 3:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	66 min
Nov 5, 3:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LWX	Montgomery	39 min
Nov 5, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, City of Baltimore	45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.