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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Baltimore/Washington

November 8, 1996King George County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 1996, 1:35 PM EST for King George County, Virginia. It was in force for 35 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
Nov 8, 1996, 1:35 PM EST (18:35 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1996, 2:10 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties

County King George County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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 1996-11-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 563 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 1996-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 252 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
563 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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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
Nov 8, 3:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXSpotsylvania32 min
Nov 8, 3:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXFairfax, Prince William3 hr
Nov 8, 4:06 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXArlington, City of Alexandria119 min
Nov 8, 1:35 PM ESTTornado WarningLWXCharles35 min
Nov 8, 2:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's34 min
Nov 8, 2:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCalvert, Charles33 min
Nov 8, 2:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles33 min
Nov 8, 2:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel48 min
Nov 8, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's37 min
Nov 8, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel34 min
Nov 8, 3:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore, City of Baltimore45 min
Nov 8, 3:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXMontgomery3 hr
Nov 8, 3:45 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXFrederick, Howard3 hr
Nov 8, 4:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles, Prince George's45 min
Nov 8, 4:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXBaltimore, Carroll2 hr
Nov 8, 4:31 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLWXAnne Arundel, City of Baltimore2 hr
Nov 8, 5:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert30 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Virginia, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes in 1996

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.