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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2003, 7:17 PM EDT for Culpeper County, Virginia. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 27, 2003, 7:17 PM EDT (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2003, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Culpeper County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:17 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
029 WUUS51 KLWX 272317 SVRLWX VAC047-280000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 718 PM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CULPEPER COUNTY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA * UNTIL 800 PM EDT. * AT 718 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELKWOOD TO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CULPEPER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...CULPEPER. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF PENNIES 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 3853 7786 3843 7810 3838 7791 3846 7778 $$ ROSA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Shenandoah, Warren | 50 min |
| Aug 27, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Loudoun | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 55 min |
| Aug 27, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 66 min | |
| Aug 27, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 66 min | |
| Aug 27, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 51 min | |
| Aug 27, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 83 min |
Nearby
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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.