Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1998, 8:44 PM EST for Spotsylvania County, City of Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 17, 1998, 8:44 PM EST (01:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1998, 9:50 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties City of Fredericksburg, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 9:13 PM EST | Hail 2 | Snell, VA | |
| Feb 17, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado F1 | Snell, 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 7:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 7:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Orange | 2 hr |
| Feb 17, 9:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg | 34 min |
| Feb 17, 9:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.