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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 310, NWS Wakefield, VA
NWS Wakefield, VA issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Maryland. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wakefield, VA
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dorchester County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Ese Church Creek, MD | Several trees down along Egypt Rd. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1642 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
576
WUUS51 KAKQ 312111
SVRAKQ
MDC019-312200-
/O.NEW.KAKQ.SV.W.0310.250731T2111Z-250731T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
511 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025
The National Weather Service in Wakefield has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Northwestern Dorchester County in southeastern Maryland...
* Until 600 PM EDT.
* At 510 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near University Of
Maryland Center For Environmental Studies, or near Cambridge,
moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.
* This severe thunderstorm will be near...
Cambridge and University Of Maryland Center For Environmental
Studies around 515 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include Madison,
Woolford, Hudson, East New Market, Church Creek, Bucktown, Linkwood,
and Lloyds.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
Please report severe weather by calling 757-899-2415, posting to the
NWS Wakefield Facebook page, or using X @NWSWAKEFIELDVA.
&&
LAT...LON 3839 7591 3849 7627 3852 7625 3851 7621
3854 7620 3856 7622 3854 7628 3857 7630
3860 7626 3862 7628 3863 7624 3860 7621
3863 7617 3859 7616 3860 7614 3858 7611
3859 7609 3857 7603 3866 7595 3866 7584
TIME...MOT...LOC 2110Z 280DEG 22KT 3858 7619
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
EI1 follow-up statement
765
WWUS51 KAKQ 312136
SVSAKQ
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Wakefield VA
536 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025
MDC019-312200-
/O.CON.KAKQ.SV.W.0310.000000T0000Z-250731T2200Z/
Dorchester MD-
536 PM EDT Thu Jul 31 2025
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN DORCHESTER COUNTY...
At 535 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Cambridge,
moving east at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and powerlines.
This severe storm will be near...
Cambridge around 540 PM EDT.
Other locations impacted by this severe thunderstorm include East New
Market, Church Creek, Bucktown, Woolford, Linkwood, and Lloyds.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3848 7622 3863 7618 3863 7617 3859 7616
3860 7614 3858 7611 3859 7609 3857 7603
3866 7595 3866 7584 3839 7591
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 278DEG 13KT 3856 7610
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$
EIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Wakefield, VA issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 2:12 AM EDT | Flood Watch | AKQ | Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 21 hr |
| Jul 31, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester, Wicomico | 61 min |
| Jul 31, 6:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | AKQ | Dorchester | 3 hr |
| Jul 31, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset, Wicomico | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | AKQ | Somerset | 53 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.