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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 441, NWS Baltimore/Washington

October 14, 2011Harford County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 2011, 11:17 AM EDT for Harford County, Maryland. It was in force for 15 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
Oct 14, 2011, 11:17 AM EDT (15:17 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2011, 11:32 AM EDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Harford County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 19 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 262 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
262 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 14, 9:46 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 14, 9:46 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 14, 11:11 AM EDT, 6 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 8:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXFairfax2 hr
Oct 13, 8:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Rappahannock2 hr
Oct 13, 11:04 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWXFairfax, City of Fairfax117 min
Oct 14, 1:44 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX54 hr
Oct 14, 4:37 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX51 hr
Oct 14, 12:04 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryLWXArlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church16 hr
Oct 14, 1:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX69 min
Oct 14, 1:39 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX64 min
Oct 14, 6:45 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX25 hr
Oct 14, 6:48 PM EDTWind AdvisoryLWXHighland, Rockingham, Shenandoah, City of Harrisonburg, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro23 hr
Oct 13, 11:23 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningLWXMontgomery4 hr
Oct 14, 11:11 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXHarford34 min
Oct 14, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXCalvert34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2011

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.