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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 11, 1996King George County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 1996, 7:47 PM EDT for King George County, Virginia. It was in force for 28 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 11, 1996, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County King George County, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 1996-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1188 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 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
1188 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.1
Supercell composite
-1.5

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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 10, 9:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXLoudoun56 min
Jun 10, 10:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXLoudoun86 min
Jun 11, 11:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXMadison42 min
Jun 11, 11:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMadison42 min
Jun 11, 12:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXFauquier, Rappahannock63 min
Jun 11, 12:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXGreene63 min
Jun 11, 1:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock116 min
Jun 11, 1:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXLoudoun116 min
Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXOrange2 hr
Jun 11, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAllegany53 min
Jun 11, 5:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXAllegany87 min
Jun 11, 7:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXAllegany118 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.