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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 14, 2003Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2003, 10:46 PM EDT for Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 44 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
Oct 14, 2003, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2003, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Talbot County, MD

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2003-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2003-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 385 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
539 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
385 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
514 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 150246
SVRPHI
MDC041-150330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1045 PM EDT TUE OCT 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND.

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT.

* AT 1037 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR            
  INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST.        
  MICHAELS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

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.

$$
LAT...LON 3886 7625 3868 7624 3874 7604 3887 7597

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's38 min
Oct 14, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2003Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.