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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 10, 1995Shenandoah County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT for Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1995, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1995, 4:58 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Shenandoah County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 429 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAugusta35 min
Jun 10, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAlbemarle, Nelson36 min
Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick, Warren54 min
Jun 10, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXClarke34 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHampshire, Hardy47 min
Jun 10, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMorgan69 min
Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBerkeley25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.