Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington
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.
- 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 9:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 56 min |
| Jun 10, 10:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 86 min |
| Jun 11, 11:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 11:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison | 42 min |
| Jun 11, 12:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Rappahannock | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 12:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene | 63 min |
| Jun 11, 1:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Rappahannock | 116 min |
| Jun 11, 1:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 116 min |
| Jun 11, 4:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Jun 11, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany | 87 min |
| Jun 11, 7:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany | 118 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.