Alert archive / Maryland / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 35, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1996, 1:29 PM EDT for Baltimore County, Carroll County, Maryland. It was in force for 31 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
- Sep 6, 1996, 1:29 PM EDT (17:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Augusta, City of Staunton | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Highland | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Waynesboro | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:36 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Nelson | 5 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham, Shenandoah, Warren | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 7:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Harrisonburg | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, City of Winchester | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Orange | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick, City of Winchester | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Warren | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Rockingham, Shenandoah, City of Harrisonburg | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Highland | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Nelson | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Waynesboro | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Staunton | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Charlottesville | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Orange | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick, Shenandoah, City of Winchester | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Orange, Page, Rappahannock | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Augusta, City of Waynesboro | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun, Warren | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Nelson | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Highland | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Stafford | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | City of Staunton | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Sep 6, 10:51 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 34 min |
| Sep 6, 11:48 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Howard | 32 min |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 4:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Charles | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Washington | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Allegany | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 2 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 8:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 4 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Jefferson | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:39 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Pendleton | 6 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Hardy | 36 min |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Pendleton | 3 hr |
| Sep 6, 6:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Mineral | 2 hr |
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.