Weather alerts in Maryland, May 2002

74 weather alerts in May 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 74
Warnings: 63
Watches: 11
Advisories: 0
Busiest day: May 13, 200216 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 2, 6:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Garrett	3 hr
May 2, 2:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 7 more	7 hr
May 2, 2:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Saint Mary's, Somerset	6 hr
May 2, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	50 min
May 2, 3:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and 1 more	6 hr
May 2, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Howard	46 min
May 2, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, City of Baltimore	40 min
May 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Harford	38 min
May 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil	47 min
May 2, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Harford	30 min
May 2, 5:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Cecil	24 min
May 2, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil	31 min
May 9, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegany, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard, Montgomery and 1 more	5 hr
May 9, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Somerset	5 hr
May 12, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Garrett and 5 more	6 hr
May 12, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, Washington	28 min
May 12, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Howard, Montgomery	48 min
May 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick	46 min
May 12, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Prince George's, City of Baltimore	48 min
May 12, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Caroline, Cecil, Harford, Howard and 6 more	5 hr
May 12, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	43 min
May 12, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Carroll, Frederick	40 min
May 12, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline	37 min
May 12, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	30 min
May 12, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	52 min
May 12, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford	51 min
May 12, 7:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	21 min
May 12, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's	47 min
May 12, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, Montgomery	22 min
May 12, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's	38 min
May 12, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery, Prince George's	47 min
May 13, 1:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 14 more	6 hr
May 13, 3:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Montgomery	34 min
May 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Howard	31 min
May 13, 3:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Baltimore, City of Baltimore	24 min
May 13, 3:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford, City of Baltimore	29 min
May 13, 4:02 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent	43 min
May 13, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Harford	24 min
May 13, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Somerset	30 min
May 13, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil	65 min
May 13, 4:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Somerset	28 min
May 13, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Somerset	6 hr
May 13, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	43 min
May 13, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	40 min
May 13, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Saint Mary's	33 min
May 13, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico	38 min
May 13, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	AKQ	Worcester	40 min
May 13, 9:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	AKQ	Worcester	19 min
May 14, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Allegany, Washington	24 min
May 14, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Carroll, Frederick	50 min
May 14, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, City of Baltimore	38 min
May 14, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Prince George's	46 min
May 14, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	29 min
May 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Calvert, Charles	60 min
May 14, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Prince George's	30 min
May 14, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, City of Baltimore	34 min
May 14, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Prince George's	28 min
May 14, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	39 min
May 14, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	46 min
May 18, 8:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Charles	50 min
May 26, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Frederick and 7 more	6 hr
May 26, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	48 min
May 26, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	41 min
May 26, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	38 min
May 26, 5:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	79 min
May 26, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	33 min
May 26, 10:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	86 min
May 27, 4:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	115 min
May 27, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	24 min
May 28, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Allegany	38 min
May 28, 6:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PBZ	Garrett	118 min
May 29, 6:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Allegany	3 hr
May 31, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Harford and 4 more	6 hr
May 31, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel	30 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	47
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	7
Tornado Watch	4
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	6

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2001 2003

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.