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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 6, 1995Loudoun County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT for Loudoun County, Virginia. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Loudoun County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 26 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 802 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
802 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAugusta41 min
Jul 6, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPage48 min
Jul 6, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper49 min
Jul 6, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFauquier68 min
Jul 6, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick, Shenandoah, Warren64 min
Jul 6, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXClarke69 min
Jul 6, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXLoudoun55 min
Jul 6, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAllegany46 min
Jul 6, 2:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXWashington68 min
Jul 6, 2:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXWashington68 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCarroll, Frederick55 min
Jul 6, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMontgomery49 min
Jul 6, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Baltimore, City of Baltimore55 min
Jul 6, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHoward55 min
Jul 6, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's44 min
Jul 6, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore, City of Baltimore59 min
Jul 6, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHarford59 min
Jul 6, 12:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHampshire58 min
Jul 6, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMorgan51 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXJefferson47 min

Nearby

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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.