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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Baltimore/Washington

August 16, 1996Arlington County, City of Falls Church, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 1996, 5:10 PM EDT for Arlington County, City of Falls Church, Virginia. It was in force for 50 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
Aug 16, 1996, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

Counties Arlington County, VA, City of Falls Church, VA

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 1996-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 346 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 1996-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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
Aug 15, 9:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick66 min
Aug 15, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick47 min
Aug 16, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXShenandoah48 min
Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXClarke, Loudoun60 min
Aug 16, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXClarke, Loudoun60 min
Aug 16, 3:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXMadison63 min
Aug 16, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMadison63 min
Aug 16, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFauquier65 min
Aug 16, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper50 min
Aug 16, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFauquier, Loudoun, Prince William62 min
Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax, Prince William47 min
Aug 16, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXKing George28 min
Aug 16, 2:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXFrederick, Montgomery59 min
Aug 16, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick, Montgomery59 min
Aug 16, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXMontgomery44 min
Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick63 min
Aug 16, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel48 min
Aug 16, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCarroll62 min
Aug 16, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's45 min
Aug 16, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCalvert46 min
Aug 16, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles, Saint Mary's33 min
Aug 15, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHampshire63 min
Aug 16, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXJefferson67 min
Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHampshire63 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.