Alert archive / Virginia / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 12:52 AM EST for Albemarle County, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1996, 12:52 AM EST (05:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1996, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
County Albemarle County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 441 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 574 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 11:39 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rappahannock | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Waynesboro | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Augusta, Highland, City of Harrisonburg | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Page, Shenandoah | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Staunton | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:52 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison, Rappahannock | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 4:45 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Highland | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 6:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Nelson | 2 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Nelson, Rockingham | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Page, Shenandoah, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Highland | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Rappahannock | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 9:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 29 min |
| Jan 19, 5:09 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:29 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Washington | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 8:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany | 4 hr |
| Jan 19, 11:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 26 min |
| Jan 19, 5:09 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton | 4 hr |
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.