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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2016Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 2016, 12:52 PM EDT for Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2016, 12:52 PM EDT (16:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2016, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Observed
Hail: 0.0 in

Counties Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 1169 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1097 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 3.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

564 
WFUS51 KPHI 281652
TORPHI
MDC011-041-281715-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0004.160728T1652Z-160728T1715Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1252 PM EDT THU JUL 28 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ  HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL TALBOT COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND...
  SOUTHWESTERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND...

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT 1252 PM EDT...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TRAPPE...OR 7
  MILES SOUTH OF EASTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

  HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT CONFIRMED TORNADO BETWEEN OXFORD
           AND TRAPPE. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EASTON...TRAPPE...PRESTON...WINDYHILL...CHOPTANK...HARMONY...
  MATTHEWS...TANYARD AND HAMBLETON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A
BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY
BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE
TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING
DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3872 7613 3887 7594 3877 7583 3870 7580
      3871 7584 3870 7587 3870 7590 3869 7590
      3868 7593 3866 7596 3865 7604
TIME...MOT...LOC 1652Z 235DEG 12KT 3867 7611 

TORNADO...OBSERVED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

JRK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline	40 min
Jul 28, 2:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cecil	4 hr
Jul 28, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	38 min
Jul 28, 3:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cecil, Kent	4 hr
Jul 28, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's	44 min
Jul 28, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's	4 hr
Jul 28, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	46 min
Jul 28, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	49 min
Jul 28, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	48 min
Jul 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 28, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline	65 min
Jul 28, 6:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	4 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.