Alert archive / Maryland / 1997
Weather alerts in Maryland, August 1997
18 weather alerts in August 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 17, 199712 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Saint Mary's, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Wicomico, Worcester | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 34 min |
| Aug 16, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Queen Anne's, Talbot | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 6:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard, Montgomery | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Howard | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Harford | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 48 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 15 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Howard County4
- Wicomico County3
- Worcester County3
- Anne Arundel County3
- Montgomery County3
- Queen Anne's County3
- Saint Mary's County2
- Somerset County2
- Garrett County2
- Baltimore County2
- Carroll County2
- Frederick County2
- Washington County2
- City of Baltimore2
- Talbot County2
- Caroline County2
- Charles County2
- Harford County2
- Kent County2
- Allegany County1
- Calvert County1
- Cecil County1
- Dorchester County1
- Prince George's County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.