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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 13, 1996Baltimore County, City of Baltimore, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 1996, 5:15 AM EDT for Baltimore County, City of Baltimore, Maryland. It was in force for 30 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 13, 1996, 5:15 AM EDT (09:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1996, 5:45 AM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

Counties Baltimore County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 826 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, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 1996-07-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
826 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
192 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
4.1

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 2:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXSpotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg47 min
Jul 13, 3:02 AM EDTTornado WarningLWXSpotsylvania33 min
Jul 13, 3:13 AM EDTTornado WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert32 min
Jul 13, 3:25 AM EDTTornado WarningLWXPrince George's35 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.