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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

September 28, 2006Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 2006, 6:53 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: Sep 28, 2006, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 2006, 8:00 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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
Sep 28, 7:05 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Rock Hall, MD	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
Sep 28, 7:06 PM EDT	TSTM WND GST 57	2 S Rock Hall, MD

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
Sep 28, 2:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 9 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 103 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 
WFUS51 KPHI 282253
TORPHI
MDC029-035-290000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0006.060928T2253Z-060929T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
653 PM EDT THU SEP 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND...
  QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND...

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  STEVENSVILLE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BALTIMORE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR...
  ROCK HALL BY 700 PM EDT...
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTREVILLE BY 705 PM EDT...
  CHESTERTOWN BY 710 PM EDT...
  CHURCH HILL BY 715 PM EDT...
  SUDLERSVILLE BY 720 PM EDT...
  MILLINGTON BY 725 PM EDT...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
PENNY SIZE HAIL AND STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN SHORE 
OF MARYLAND UNTIL 10 PM.

LAT...LON 3934 7647 3884 7639 3897 7601 3914 7576
      3938 7578

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 28, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	54 min
Sep 28, 7:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Cecil	58 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.