Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 6:50 PM EDT for Cecil County, Maryland. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2005, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cecil County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 6:52 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Rising Sun, MD | TREES KNOCKED DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 27, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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
- 1105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1506 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 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 272250 SVRPHI MDC015-272330- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0096.050727T2250Z-050727T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 650 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CECIL COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RISING SUN...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF NEWARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RISING SUN BY 655 PM EDT NORTH EAST BY 700 PM EDT ELKTON BY 710 PM EDT HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LAT...LON 3974 7630 3946 7621 3946 7577 3971 7580 $$ NIERENBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 54 min |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.