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Tornado Watches in Maryland, 2002
10 tornado watches in 2002. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- May4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20023 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and 5 more | 4 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, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Carroll, Cecil and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Garrett | 5 hr |
| Nov 11, 5:05 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Caroline, Cecil, Charles and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 11, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Saint Mary's, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Saint Mary's County5
- Baltimore County4
- Harford County4
- Howard County4
- Prince George's County4
- City of Baltimore4
- Calvert County4
- Caroline County4
- Cecil County4
- Dorchester County4
- Kent County4
- Queen Anne's County4
- Somerset County4
- Talbot County4
- Garrett County3
- Carroll County3
- Frederick County3
- Montgomery County3
- Wicomico County3
- Anne Arundel County3
- Charles County3
- Allegany County2
- Washington County2
- Worcester County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.