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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 8, 2003Page County, Shenandoah County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 12:24 PM EDT for Page County, Shenandoah County, Virginia. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 8, 2003, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Page County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

905 
WUUS51 KLWX 081624
SVRLWX
VAC139-171-081715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
1224 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PAGE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST VIRGINIA
  SHENANDOAH COUNTY IN NORTHWEST VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT.

* AT 1224 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
  MOUNT JACKSON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...LURAY AND
  MOUNT JACKSON.

HAIL TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN
THE WARNED AREA. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3887 7867 3874 7873 3854 7845 3877 7830

$$
MANNING

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 7, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		65 min
May 8, 11:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		30 min
May 8, 11:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fairfax, City of Alexandria	24 min
May 8, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		59 min
May 8, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier	41 min
May 8, 1:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	46 min
May 8, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	41 min
May 8, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	51 min
May 8, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Clarke, Warren	52 min
May 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Fauquier	37 min
May 8, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Culpeper, Fauquier	46 min
May 8, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.