Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 10, 20004 counties in Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 4:58 PM EDT for 4 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 47 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: May 10, 2000, 4:58 PM EDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties

Counties City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Prince William County, VA

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 5:30 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Burke, VA	Dime sized hail fell.

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
May 10, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 10, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 17 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1518 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KLWX 102059
SVRWBC
VAC059-153-600-610-683-685-102145-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON
458 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CITY OF FAIRFAX IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  CITY OF FALLS CHURCH IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  CITY OF MANASSAS IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  CITY OF MANASSAS PARK IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  FAIRFAX COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA
  PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ... ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH
  OF COLUMBIA TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF OLNEY TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  WARRENTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
   THE AMERICAN LEGION BRIDGE...OAKTON AT 506 PM EDT
   NOKESVILLE AT 508 PM EDT
   MANASSAS PARK...TYSONS CORNER AT 510 PM EDT
   MANASSAS AT 512 PM EDT
   MCLEAN AT 514 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR AND NORTHWESTERN MARYLAND AND NORTHERN
VIRGINIA.

.END/ DW/MKM

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 May 10, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
250 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

CD FNT PROGRESSING INTO THE APLCHNS W/ MULTIPLE CELLS FIRING AHEAD
OF IT..SOME OF THE MOST IMPRESSIVE X-SXNS I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.
WE ARE MONITORING AND ISSUING WRNGS AS NEEDED.

I PLAN TO LV A 30 POP IN FOR THE ERLY EVNG FOR DC-BALT AREA...THEN
CLRG ACROSS THE CWA OVRNGT. TMRW LOOKS LIKE A NICE RESPITE FM THE
PAST SVRL DAYS OF VERY JULY-LIKE WX. NOTHING MUCH TO SPEAK OF THURS
EVENG OR FRIDAY. SLOW WARMUP ON FRI AND SAT...THEN ANOTHER CHC OF
RW/TRW LATE SAT AND SUN.

WOODY!

.LWX...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 500 PM EDT FOR ZONE DCZ001...
       MDZ004>018.../VAZ041>042...VAZ052>054.
       SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY THIS EVNG NRN CHES BAY AND POT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	51 min
May 10, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	49 min
May 10, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	City of Winchester	49 min
May 10, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	48 min
May 10, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Clarke	40 min
May 10, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Warren	53 min
May 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Loudoun	45 min
May 10, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier, Prince William	45 min
May 10, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Culpeper, Madison, Orange	52 min
May 10, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	47 min
May 10, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier, Stafford	45 min
May 10, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Spotsylvania	40 min
May 10, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, City of Alexandria	47 min
May 10, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	King George	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2000 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.