Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT for Spotsylvania County, Stafford County, City of Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was in force for 60 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
- May 8, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2003, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties City of Fredericksburg, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 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
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 8, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before
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DCZ001-MDZ002>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ021-025>031-036>042- 050>057-WVZ048>055-091000- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1024 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MARYLAND WEST OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND EAST OF GARRETT COUNTY...THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA...NORTHERN VIRGINIA...THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SHENANDOAH VALLEY...AND THE EASTERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE AREA. THE PRIMARY RISK THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING IS DAMAGING WINDS...BUT SOME LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS BETWEEN 1 PM AND 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY ACROSS THE AREA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. MANNING/ROGOWSKI
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 8, 1:39 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>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, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Page, Shenandoah | 51 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 7, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Calvert | 28 min |
| May 7, 8:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 47 min |
| May 8, 11:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Prince George's | 50 min |
| May 8, 12:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 54 min |
| May 8, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2003Every 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.