Heavy Rain, Caroline
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM EST to May 26, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Caroline County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.872, -75.832 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Maryland, May 25 to 26, 2001
A slow moving cold front and a very humid air mass preceding it helped generate showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain across the Maryland Eastern Shore from the evening of the 25th through the first half of the 26th. Doppler Radar storm total estimates ranged between 2 and 5 inches.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A slow moving cold front and a very humid air mass preceding it helped generate showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain across the Maryland Eastern Shore from the evening of the 25th through the first half of the 26th. Doppler Radar storm total estimates ranged between 2 and 5 inches. While the heavy rain produced some poor drainage flooding, no serious flooding was reported. The combination of lightning and the heavy rain saturating the soil downed a few trees and limbs across the Eastern Shore on the 26th. About 2,700 customers lost power in Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties. Hardest hit were Church Hill (Queen Anne's County), Longwoods (Talbot County) and Easton (Talbot County). Storm totals included 5.20 inches in Easton (Talbot County), 4 inches in Chestertown and Millington (Kent County), 3.20 inches in Stevensville (Queen Anne's County) and 2.5 inches in Federalsburg (Caroline County).
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 25, 2:27 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:27 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 327 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 2001 DISC: UPPER LOW TO OUR WEST WILL BRING UNSETTLED WX TO OUR FA FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THE UPPER LOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY NE... REACHING NEW ENGLAND TUE. SHORT WAVES ROTATING AROUND THE LOW WILL BRING SHWRS/TSTMS TO OUR AREA TNGT...CONT THRU SAT AND INTO SAT NGT. SOME MOD TO HVY PCPN IS PSBL LATE SAT INTO SAT NIGHT. THE AREA THAT APPEARS TO BE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE HVY RAIN WILL BE ERN PA NE ACROSS NW NJ. THE RAIN WILL MOST LIKELY FALL OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME SO THAT THE POSSIBILITY OF FLOODING WILL BE FAIRLY LOW. THIS SITUATION WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY IF TRAINING BEGINS TO OCCUR. SOME DRY AIR WILL WRAP AROUND INTO THE AREA FROM THE SW SUN. WILL GO WITH PTLY SUNNY SRN SECTIONS BUT CONT WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SHWRY WX N...SINCE THEY WILL BE MUCH CLOSER TO THE UPPER LOW. WITH SOME HEATING...WILL GO FOR AFTN/EVNG SHWRS/TSTMS ALL SECTIONS SUN. WINDS WILL CONT TO BLOW IN OFF THE ATLC TNGT INTO SAT NGT...BUT SHOULD SWIND AROUND TO THE SSW SUN. THIS WILL MEAN A CONTINUATION OF RELATIVELY COOL TEMPS THRU SAT NGT. READINGS SHOULD BEGIN TO REBOUND SUN...ESP SRN SECTIONS OF THE FA WHERE THE SUN WILL MAKE ITSELF FELT. .PHI...NONE. RPW
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
5 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Rain, Cecil
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM EST to May 26, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Cecil County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.562, -75.948 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain, Kent
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM EST to May 26, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Kent County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.236, -76.096 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain, Queen Anne'S
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM EST to May 26, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Queen Anne'S County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 39.038, -76.085 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain, Talbot
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM EST to May 26, 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Talbot County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 38.749, -76.179 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Maryland, May 25, 2001
- Hail in Florida, May 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Virginia, May 25, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, May 25, 2001
- Hail in Ohio, May 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Florida, May 25, 2001
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, May 25 to 26, 2001
- Hail in South Carolina, May 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 25, 2001
- Hail in Pennsylvania, May 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Maryland in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, May 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5244816, 5244817, 5244818, 5244819, 5244820.