Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 2:19 PM EDT for Clarke County, Fauquier County, Warren County, Virginia. It was in force for 51 min. 3 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
- Jun 13, 1998, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clarke County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Warren County, VA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:19 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Portion, VA | |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | South Portion, VA | |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Upperville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 52 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1171 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
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 13, 2:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Highland | 65 min |
| Jun 13, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Greene, Rockingham | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Warren | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Orange | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 2:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania | 64 min |
| Jun 13, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Arlington, City of Falls Church | 77 min |
| Jun 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Alexandria | 77 min |
| Jun 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Howard | 49 min |
| Jun 13, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, City of Baltimore | 48 min |
| Jun 13, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 46 min |
| Jun 13, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jun 13, 1:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Hardy | 31 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.