Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 11:36 PM EST for City of Staunton, Virginia. It was in force for 39 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 11:36 PM EST (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2000, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Whole counties
County City of Staunton, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:36 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 627 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 9, 9:30 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 9, 9:30 PM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Nelson | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 11:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | City of Waynesboro | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 12:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 52 min |
| Nov 10, 12:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, City of Winchester | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 12:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison, Orange | 39 min |
| Nov 9, 10:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 58 min |
| Nov 9, 11:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.