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Tornado Watch 277
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at May 27, 2022, 11:50 AM EDT for 6 counties in Maryland; 19 counties in North Carolina; 22 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 27, 2022, 11:50 AM EDT (15:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2022, 3:53 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 0.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 47 counties
Cecil County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Harford County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Gates County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Accomack County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, York County, VA
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:53 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 30%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 5%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 5%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 50%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Greensville, Southampton, Sussex | 43 min |
| May 27, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Gates, Hertford, Pasquotank and 1 more | 41 min |
| May 27, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Gloucester, James City, King and Queen, Mathews, Middlesex, New Kent and 1 more | 51 min |
| May 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Harford | 45 min |
| May 27, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 42 min |
| May 27, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Harford | 16 min |
| May 27, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Cecil | 46 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:24 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 27, 8:13 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charles, Prince George's | 2 hr |
| May 27, 10:59 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 5 more | 91 min |
| May 27, 11:55 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caroline, Cecil | 95 min |
| May 27, 12:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 5 hr |
| May 27, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 4 hr |
| May 27, 7:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 83 min |
| May 26, 8:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Cabarrus, Catawba, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth and 8 more | 118 min |
| May 27, 5:00 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Davie, Gaston, Guilford and 11 more | 2 hr |
| May 27, 6:01 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford and 6 more | 119 min |
| May 27, 10:44 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 14 more | 91 min |
| May 27, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham and 20 more | 84 min |
| May 27, 3:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Surry | 97 min |
| May 27, 4:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Bladen, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 24 more | 2 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.