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Flash Flood Warning 64, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 18, 1996Albemarle County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1996, 2:49 PM EDT for Albemarle County, Virginia. It was in force for 71 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 18, 1996, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 18, 1996, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
71 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County Albemarle County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAlbemarle71 min
Jun 18, 3:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXRockingham61 min
Jun 18, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXRockingham61 min
Jun 18, 3:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXOrange101 min
Jun 18, 4:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXShenandoah81 min
Jun 18, 5:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXSpotsylvania78 min
Jun 17, 9:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXFrederick69 min
Jun 17, 10:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXBaltimore, City of Baltimore103 min
Jun 17, 11:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Prince George's2 hr
Jun 17, 11:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXMontgomery2 hr
Jun 18, 3:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXHardy100 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.