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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 236
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2016, 3:12 PM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2016, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2016, 9:26 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 98 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Adams County, PA, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, York County, PA, Albemarle County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Fredericksburg, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, King George County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA, Warren County, VA, Jefferson County, WV
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 70%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Washington | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland, York | 68 min |
| Jun 5, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and 1 more | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 46 min |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union | 58 min |
| Jun 5, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Westchester | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean | 42 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Kent, New Castle | 93 min |
| Jun 5, 1:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Cecil, Charles and 9 more | 91 min |
| Jun 5, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Erie, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 4 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer and 2 more | 87 min |
| Jun 5, 7:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gloucester, Greensville, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Northampton and 15 more | 97 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.