Alert archive / Maryland / 2003
Weather alerts in Maryland, May 2003
37 weather alerts in May 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 22
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 31, 200311 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, 6:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Howard and 2 more | 3 hr |
| May 7, 12:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick, Garrett and 5 more | 116 min |
| May 7, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 3:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Frederick and 6 more | 114 min |
| May 7, 6:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 13 more | 53 min |
| May 7, 6:21 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Charles | 54 min |
| May 7, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 60 min |
| May 7, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Charles, Saint Mary's | 60 min |
| May 7, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert | 38 min |
| May 7, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Calvert | 28 min |
| May 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 47 min |
| May 7, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Dorchester | 30 min |
| May 8, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 50 min |
| May 8, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 54 min |
| May 8, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert | 49 min |
| May 8, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 16 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll and 16 more | 117 min |
| May 8, 4:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Charles, Garrett, Saint Mary's | 59 min |
| May 10, 4:33 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Garrett, Washington | 87 min |
| May 10, 7:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Garrett | 4 hr |
| May 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Garrett | 5 hr |
| May 11, 2:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Garrett | 113 min |
| May 11, 3:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Charles and 14 more | 117 min |
| May 24, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 4 hr |
| May 25, 12:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll | 4 hr |
| May 28, 9:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Washington | 3 hr |
| May 31, 1:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Washington | 114 min |
| May 31, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 34 min |
| May 31, 3:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 14 more | 2 hr |
| May 31, 4:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 2 hr |
| May 31, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 17 min |
| May 31, 5:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll | 109 min |
| May 31, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard, Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 31, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard, Montgomery | 45 min |
| May 31, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles, Prince George's | 41 min |
| May 31, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Calvert | 74 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 | 12 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 11 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Frederick County14
- Carroll County13
- Howard County13
- Montgomery County13
- Washington County12
- Calvert County12
- Charles County12
- Saint Mary's County12
- Prince George's County11
- Baltimore County10
- Garrett County9
- City of Baltimore9
- Anne Arundel County9
- Allegany County7
- Dorchester County7
- Caroline County6
- Kent County6
- Queen Anne's County6
- Somerset County6
- Talbot County6
- Wicomico County6
- Harford County5
- Cecil County4
- Worcester County2
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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.