Alert archive / Maryland / 1997
Weather alerts in Maryland, May 1997
15 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 15
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 1, 199711 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calvert, Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Somerset | 31 min |
| May 1, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Worcester | 43 min |
| May 1, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| May 1, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard | 31 min |
| May 1, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Harford | 34 min |
| May 1, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 33 min |
| May 1, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 35 min |
| May 1, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore | 35 min |
| May 1, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Prince George's | 50 min |
| May 1, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 32 min |
| May 3, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick | 31 min |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baltimore, Cecil, Harford, Howard, Kent, City of Baltimore | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 33 min |
| May 6, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 32 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 | 13 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Baltimore County3
- Cecil County3
- Dorchester County2
- Kent County2
- Somerset County2
- Worcester County2
- Howard County2
- Harford County2
- City of Baltimore2
- Prince George's County2
- Calvert County1
- Caroline County1
- Queen Anne's County1
- Saint Mary's County1
- Talbot County1
- Wicomico County1
- Montgomery County1
- Anne Arundel County1
- Carroll County1
- Frederick County1
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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.