Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for Fairfax County, City of Falls Church, Virginia. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1996, 5:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Falls Church, VA, Fairfax County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria, VA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1076 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 24, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, City of Winchester | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Warren | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Loudoun | 59 min |
| Jun 24, 3:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Clarke, Warren | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Warren | 58 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Loudoun | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Rappahannock | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Rappahannock | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 62 min |
| Jun 24, 4:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Loudoun | 28 min |
| Jun 24, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Fairfax, City of Fairfax | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | City of Alexandria | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | City of Fairfax | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William, Stafford, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George | 65 min |
| Jun 24, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rockingham | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles, Prince George's | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 5:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Prince George's | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles, Saint Mary's | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert | 24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.