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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 10, 1995Shenandoah County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 5:23 PM EDT for Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1995, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
67 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 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 1995-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
600 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
May 10, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXRappahannock67 min
May 10, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier60 min
May 10, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXCulpeper, Spotsylvania31 min
May 10, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXOrange16 min
May 10, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXShenandoah58 min
May 10, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXStafford29 min
May 10, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick69 min
May 10, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPage40 min
May 10, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAllegany63 min
May 10, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHampshire, Hardy55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.