Scattered thunderstorms moved through Southern Maryland during the evening of the 16th. In Charles County 3 miles west of White Plains, one person was injured on a golf course when a tree limb fell on them.
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The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms moved through Southern Maryland during the evening of the 16th. In Charles County 3 miles west of White Plains, one person was injured on a golf course when a tree limb fell on them. In Calvert County 2 miles west of Kings Beach, power line wires were downed.
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 Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 16, 1:00 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 200 PM EDT SUN JUN 16 2002 SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THRU MON NIGHT... UPR LVL LOW OVR ONTARIO THIS MORNING WILL OPEN UP AND LIFT INTO QUEBEC THIS PERIOD. HOWEVER...UPR LVL TROF AXIS WILL REMAIN OVR THE ERN STATES DURING THE PERIOD WITH WEAK SHORTWAVES ROTATING THRU THE TROF POSITION. ONE SHORTWAVE IS PASSING WELL N OF THE AREA THIS EVE. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL PASS BY TO THE N OF THE AREA ON MON WITH ANOTHER ONE APPROACHING LATE MON NIGHT. AT THE SFC...WEAK CDFNT PUSING THRU THE AREA THIS AFTRN. ETA MODEL HINTS AT ANOTHER WEAK CDFNT/SFC TROF MOVING THRU MON AFTRN WITH HIGH PRES TO FOLLOW FOR LATE MON INTO TUE. AS WEAK BOUNDARY PASSES S OF THE AREA TONIGHT...CLOUDS SHOULD MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. WILL INDICATE P/C SKIES EARLY...THEN M/CLR OVRNGT. MOISTURE IS LIMITED WITH THE NEXT SHORTWAVE/SFC TROF THAT AFFECTS THE AREA ON MON. IN ADDTN...BEST DYNAMICS STAY N OF THE AREA. WILL GO WITH P/CLDY SKIES ON MON. 850-500MB LAPSE RATES DO INCREASE TO NEAR 7.0C/KM MON AFT AND EVENING AND LIS DROP TO AROUND ZERO. CAN NOT RULE OUT AN ISOLD SHRA OR TSRA OVR THE AREA MON AFTRN BUT ONLY A 20 POP SO WILL NOT MENTION IT ATTM. JUST SOME PATCHY MID CLDS MON NIGHT IN ADVANCE OF THE NEXT SHORTWAVE. NO PCPN EXPECTED AS ATMOSPHERE SHOULD BE TOO DRY...BEST DYNAMICS STAY N OF THE AREA AND SFC HIGH PRES DOMINATING. NGM/ETA AND AVN MOS TEMPS ARE ALL IN THE SAME BALLPARK AND ACCEPTED WITH ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS. WALSTON ...LONGER TERM...TUE THROUGH SUN... UL TROF BEGINS TO LIFT NE OF AREA EARLY TUE AND ONLY A WEAK FEATURE REMAINS BY TUE AFT WHEN WEAK VORT SPOKE PASSES THRU PA AND N CWA. AT SFC...WEAK HIGH PRES 18Z TUE AND HEIGHTS ARE STARTING TO BUILD ALOFT. A LITTLE LLRH REMAINS OVER AREA TUE AFT SO PARTLY CLOUDY. TAKING ALL OF THESE CONDITIONS INTO ACCOUNT...BELIEVE WEAK DYNAMICS AND LIMITED RH WILL BE OVERCOME BY BUILDING HEIGHTS...PREVENTING PRECIP FROM FORMING. HAVE DECIDED TO REMOVE CHANCE SHRA/TSRA TUE AND TUE NIGHT. WILL REPLACE WITH SILENT 20 POP...SIMILAR TO MON AFT FCST. BY WED...RIDGING TAKES CONTROL OF CWA LEADING TO DRY AND MOSUNNY CONDITIONS. THIS RIDGE WILL STAY IN PLACE THROUGH FRI. BY SAT...THE OFFSHORE HIGH MOVES FAR ENOUGH OFFSHORE TO ALLOW S FLOW TO BRING IN SOME LLRH. WILL HAVE PTCLDY FCST SAT AND SUN. REGARDING TEMPS...EVEN WITH SUBSTANTIAL RIDGING...850MB TEMPS ONLY REACH +14C SO NO HEAT WAVE TO WORRY ABOUT. MAYBE NEAR 90 ONE DAY. GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOKED REASONABLE THROUGH EXTENDED PERIOD. MMARGRAF .LWX... DC...NONE. MD...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree limb fell onto a person at a golf course.
Wires were downed by high winds just west of Kings Beach.
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