Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 288
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 25, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT for 11 counties in Maryland; 67 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2001, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2001, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 82 counties
Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Fredericksburg, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greene County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King George County, VA, King William County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Madison County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Warren County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Morgan County, WV
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 45 min |
| May 25, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg | 40 min |
| May 25, 3:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Charles, Prince George's | 34 min |
| May 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 50 min |
| May 25, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George, Stafford | 50 min |
| May 25, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 53 min |
| May 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 51 min |
| May 25, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles, Saint Mary's | 58 min |
| May 25, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | King and Queen, Middlesex | 35 min |
| May 25, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 46 min |
| May 25, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | AKQ | Southampton, City of Suffolk | 17 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Amelia, Brunswick, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg and 5 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Maryland, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.