Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 132, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2004, 4:32 PM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 58 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
- Jul 14, 2004, 4:32 PM EDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 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 142032 SVRPHI MDC029-035-142130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 432 PM EDT WED JUL 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROCK HALL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESTERTOWN BY 445 PM EDT... CHURCH HILL BY 450 PM EDT... SUDLERSVILLE BY 505 PM EDT... MILLINGTON BY 510 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. LAT...LON 3696 7836 $$ IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 57 min |
| Jul 14, 3:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 76 days |
| Jul 14, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 66 min |
| Jul 14, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.