Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 9:03 PM EDT for King George County, Virginia. It was in force for 42 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 2, 2000, 9:03 PM EDT (01:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
County King George County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 2, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1012 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519 WUUS51 KLWX 030104 SVRWBC VAC099-030145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON 903 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... KING GEORGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 903 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FAIRVIEW BEACH...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STAFFORD...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BERTHAVILLE...WEEDONVILLE AT 912 PM EDT SEEK SAFETY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...DO NOT STAND UNDERNEATH TREES OR OTHER ISOLATED OBJECTS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. AS THE STORM APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE INTO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. .END/ DMW/SMZ
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Baltimore/Washington wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:05 PM EDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON 305 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 SQUALL LINE STILL WELL TO OUR W IN NW PA. COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THRU LATER TNT WITH ABOUT A 6 HR PERIOD OF GOOD COLD ADVCTN AND STRONGER WINDS AROUND 20 MPH. THOSE WINDS WILL USHER IN DRIER AND MUCH COOLER AIR THAN TODAY. 18Z SOUNDING AT KIAD HAD 3000+ CAPE AND LI -9...BUT A 3 DEG C CAP WHICH EXPLAINS NO CU E OF THE MTNS OVER THE CWA ATTM. AFTER LINE GOES THRU TNT. HIGH PRES IN CNTRL FOR THE REST OF THE WEEKEND. HI TMPS 75 TO 80. LOWS WILL BE A BIT COOLER THAN MOS ON SAT NIGHT WITH LGHT WNDS AND CLR SKIES. NXT SYSTM IS LATE MON/TUES TIME FRAME AS NEXT WAVES MOVE IN FROM THE WEST. .LWX... DC...NONE. MD...NONE. VA...NONE. WV...NONE. STRONG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince William | 39 min |
| Jun 2, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford | 48 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.