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Flash Flood Warning 31, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 27, 1992Culpeper County, Fauquier County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jul 27, 1992, 3:05 PM EDT for Culpeper County, Fauquier County, Virginia. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 27, 1992, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

Counties Culpeper County, VA, Fauquier County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 606 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 1992-07-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
606 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.