Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 14, 2005Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2005, 6:44 PM EDT for Queen Anne's County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 61 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 2005, 6:44 PM EDT (22:44 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2005, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 142245
SVRPHI
MDC035-041-142345-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0015.050514T2244Z-050514T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
644 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND
  SOUTHWESTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 14
  MILES WEST OF STEVENSVILLE...OR ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF
  BALTIMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STEVENSVILLE BY 705 PM EDT
  GRASONVILLE BY 715 PM EDT
  CENTREVILLE BY 730 PM EDT
  QUEEN ANNE BY 740 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LARG HAIL. 
SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM 
WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3902 7644 3884 7645 3882 7595 3906 7595

$$

AMC

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KPHI 142327
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
724 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005

MDC035-041-142345-
/O.CON.KPHI.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050514T2345Z/
QUEEN ANNES MD-TALBOT MD-
724 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR
NORTHERN TALBOT AND SOUTHWESTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTIES...

AT 718 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STEVENSVILLE SOUTH...OR ABOUT 31 MILES
SOUTH OF BALTIMORE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING IS OVER KENT ISLAND BUT APPEARS 
TO HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHAT. HOWEVER...ANOTHER STORM IS NOW MOVING 
INTO THE BAY AND MAY AFFECT SOUTHERN KENT ISLAND AND TILGMAN ISLAND.

LAT...LON 3898 7635 3878 7640 3879 7595 3900 7597

$$

AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Queen Anne's, Talbot	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.