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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Wakefield, VA

July 2, 2014Dorchester County, Maryland

NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 2014, 5:57 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 2, 2014, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 2014, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Wakefield, VA
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Dorchester County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 2, 5:02 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 5:02 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 2, 5:50 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 4:46 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
446 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

VAZ074>076-022115-
ESSEX-RICHMOND-WESTMORELAND-
446 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTMORELAND...ESSEX AND
RICHMOND COUNTIES THROUGH 515 PM EDT...

AT 446 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MONTROSS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CURRIOMAN LANDING...AND...MOUNT
HOLLY AT 455 PM EDT...ERICA AT 500 PM EDT...COLES POINT AT 510 PM
EDT.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3817 7674 3816 7662 3815 7660 3813 7659
      3811 7659 3798 7683 3807 7698 3817 7684
      3816 7682 3818 7676

DAP

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:21 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
521 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

VAZ075-022145-
WESTMORELAND-
521 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS WESTMORELAND COUNTY THROUGH
545 PM EDT...

AT 521 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MOUNT HOLLY...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF MONTROSS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR COLES POINT AT 535 PM EDT.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3816 7660 3811 7659 3810 7656 3809 7655
      3807 7657 3800 7673 3811 7683 3817 7673
      3817 7668

DAP

Special weather statement, Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
528 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

MDZ021-022230-
DORCHESTER-
528 PM EDT WED JUL 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS DORCHESTER COUNTY THROUGH
630 PM EDT...

AT 528 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
HONGA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF COVE POINT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
MPH.

THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CHURCH CREEK AT 550 PM EDT...
BUCKTOWN AT 600 PM EDT...LINKWOOD AT 620 PM EDT.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.
AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.

LAT...LON 3863 7595 3848 7582 3845 7584 3843 7582
      3841 7586 3830 7623 3831 7625 3832 7626
      3833 7628 3835 7626 3837 7629 3841 7629
      3847 7633 3859 7606 3858 7603

DAP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 2, 3:54 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	AKQ		25 hr
Jul 2, 11:15 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Warning	AKQ	City of Chesapeake, City of Virginia Beach	51 hr
Jul 2, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Westmoreland	29 min
Jul 2, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Westmoreland	24 min
Jul 2, 5:15 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Watch	AKQ	Camden, Currituck, Pasquotank, Perquimans	6 hr
Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	AKQ	Dorchester	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.