Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2006, 8:08 PM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 3, 2006, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2006, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:30 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | Chestertown, MD | NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN CHESTERTOWN. |
| Apr 3, 8:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 Ne Church Hill, MD | WIRES DOWNED IN CRUMPTON. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 040010 SVRPHI MDC029-035-040115- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0014.060404T0008Z-060404T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 808 PM EDT MON APR 3 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 806 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 12 MILES WEST OF STEVENSVILLE...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTH OF BALTIMORE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. HAIL TO 3/4 INCH AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STEVENSVILLE BY 820 PM EDT GRASONVILLE BY 830 PM EDT ROCK HALL BY 835 PM EDT CENTREVILLE BY 840 PM EDT CHURCH HILL AND CHESTERTOWN BY 850 PM EDT LAT...LON 3905 7651 3881 7638 3895 7595 3936 7582 $$ RPW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 62 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.