Alert archive / Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 1998, 2:37 PM EDT for Loudoun County, Virginia; Jefferson County, West Virginia. It was in force for 48 min. 6 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, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 3:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Loudoun County, VA, Jefferson County, WV
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:47 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Round Hill, VA | |
| Jun 13, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lucketts, VA | |
| Jun 13, 2:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Middleburg, VA | |
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Charles Town, WV | |
| Jun 13, 3:12 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Leesburg, VA | |
| Jun 13, 3:18 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Leesburg, 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
478 WFUS1 KWBC 131838 RRA TORWBC VAC107-WVC037-131925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 237 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VA HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY WV WESTERN LOUDOUN COUNTY VA * UNTIL 325 PM EDT * AT 236 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED... A TORNADO... 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF PURCELLVILLE OR 7 MILES WEST OF MIDDLEBURG MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MIDDLEBURG AROUND 230 PM EDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A BASEMENT. IF YOU DONT HAVE A BASEMENT...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS...DOORS AND OUTSIDE WALLS. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR A BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO TV...RADIO AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR UPDATES AND WARNINGS. ADS/BLS &
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, 2:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Clarke, Fauquier, Warren | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Orange | 60 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, 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.