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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 15, 2000Loudoun County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT for Loudoun County, Virginia. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 15, 2000, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Loudoun County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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
Jun 15, 5:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Round Hill, VA	A tree was downed in Airmont.
Jun 15, 5:42 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, VA	Trees were downed.

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 15, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 15, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	44 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Clarke, Loudoun	46 min
Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	44 min
Jun 15, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Shenandoah	44 min
Jun 15, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun	41 min
Jun 15, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	41 min
Jun 15, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Warren	41 min
Jun 15, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun	33 min
Jun 15, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fairfax, Loudoun, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church	50 min
Jun 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Loudoun	23 min
Jun 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fairfax, City of Falls Church	23 min
Jun 15, 7:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	City of Fairfax	23 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Arlington	41 min
Jun 15, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	City of Alexandria	41 min
Jun 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	46 min
Jun 15, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Montgomery	33 min
Jun 15, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Jefferson	43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.