Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced heavy rain and minor street flooding across portions of the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore.
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Scattered thunderstorms in advance of a cold front produced heavy rain and minor street flooding across portions of the Lower Maryland Eastern Shore.
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 Wakefield, VA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 11, 3:44 AM EST, 6 hours 31 minutes earlier.
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</html>SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
1042 AM EDT THU JUL 11 2013
MDZ021>025-111545-
DORCHESTER-INLAND WORCESTER-MARYLAND BEACHES-SOMERSET-WICOMICO-
1042 AM EDT THU JUL 11 2013
...HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS DORCHESTER...SOMERSET...WORCESTER AND
WICOMICO COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 AM EDT...
AT 1041 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASSIONAL LIGHTNING MOVING ALONG A LINE
FROM ROUGHLY 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF OCEAN CITY TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF
HOOPERSVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF
OCEAN CITY TO 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON PARK...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
GUSTY WINDS UP TO 30 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.
LAT...LON 3812 7517 3809 7524 3820 7518 3790 7589
3802 7605 3806 7582 3821 7597 3822 7595
3821 7596 3822 7585 3824 7587 3823 7588
3831 7604 3806 7601 3806 7602 3849 7635
3871 7584 3846 7568 3845 7504 3844 7504
DEROSAThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
Rainfall amounts of one to three inches produced minor street flooding on roadways, especially north of 120th Street.
Rainfall amounts of one to three inches produced minor flooding along Coastal Highway 528.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Maryland in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Maryland, July 2013
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 470712, 470716.