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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 20, 2001Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2001, 10:11 PM EDT for Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, Virginia. It was in force for 49 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 20, 2001, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2001, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Albemarle County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 20, 9:14 PM EDT, 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 9:14 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 20, 7:29 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE/WASHINGTON
729 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0445 PM    MARTINSBURG               WV   WIND DAMAGE
06/20/01   BERKELEY                       TREES AND POWER LINES WERE
                                          DOWNED. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT.

MKM

Local storm report, Jun 20, 9:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 9:47 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 20, 9:59 PM EDT, 12 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 20, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Greene, Madison	49 min
Jun 20, 9:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Albemarle, City of Charlottesville	41 min
Jun 21, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Nelson	115 min
Jun 20, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Howard	65 min
Jun 20, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, City of Baltimore	62 min
Jun 21, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Howard, Prince George's	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.