Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 4:59 PM EDT for Prince William County, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park, Virginia. It was in force for 66 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
- Jul 19, 1996, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 6:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, Prince William County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 531 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 3:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 4:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 9:38 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 92 min |
| Jul 19, 12:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 12:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 63 min |
| Jul 19, 2:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Frederick | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 3:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Jul 19, 3:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll | 36 min |
| Jul 19, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 50 min |
| Jul 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 65 min |
| Jul 19, 7:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Hampshire, Mineral | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 5 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley | 32 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.