Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for City of Fairfax, Virginia. It was in force for 49 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
- 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
County City of Fairfax, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 21 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KWBC 242100 TORWBC DCC001-MDZ502-VAC059-510-600-610-242150- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STERLING VA 501 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 550 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN NORTH VIRGINIA ...CENTRAL AND EASTERN FAIRFAX COUNTY IN NORTH VIRGINIA THE INDEPENDENT CITY OF ...FAIRFAX CITY ...ALEXANDRIA ...FALLS CHURCH AT 500 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE TORNADO NEAR FAIRFAX CITY MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 40 MPH. THERE HAVE REPORTS OF STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WITH A TORNADO SIGHTED ON THE GROUND. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY THE TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND AND CAUSING DAMAGE. PEOPLE IN THE ABOVE LOCATIONS ARE IN THE PROJECTED PATH OF THE TORNADO AND SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE INSIDE A STORM CELLAR...A BASEMENT...OR A ^SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOUSE. JLW/PAP
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 | Fairfax, City of Falls Church | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | City of Alexandria | 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 |
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.