Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 225, NWS Baltimore/Washington

August 7, 2000Fauquier County, Loudoun County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT for Fauquier County, Loudoun County, Virginia. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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
Aug 7, 2000, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2000, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Fauquier County, VA, Loudoun County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 7, 7:30 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMiddleburg, VATrees and power lines 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 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 Aug 7, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 3:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXArlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria66 min
Aug 7, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCity of Fairfax66 min
Aug 7, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCity of Falls Church66 min
Aug 7, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick, Howard, Montgomery55 min
Aug 7, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHoward, Montgomery64 min
Aug 7, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXPrince George's68 min
Aug 7, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.