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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2004, 6:47 PM EDT for Page 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2004, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2004, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Page County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1138 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Aug 19, 6:43 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 6:43 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 1119 AM EDT THU AUG 19 2004 DCZ001-MDZ002>007-009>011-013-014-016>018-VAZ021-025>031-036>042- 050>057-WVZ048>055-200900- ALBEMARLE VA-ALLEGANY MD-ANNE ARUNDEL MD- ARLINGTON/FALLS CHURCH/ALEXANDRIA VA-AUGUSTA VA-BERKELEY WV- CALVERT MD-CARROLL MD-CHARLES MD-CLARKE VA-CULPEPER VA- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC-FAIRFAX VA-FAUQUIER VA-FREDERICK VA- FREDERICK MD-GRANT WV-GREENE VA-HAMPSHIRE WV-HARDY WV-HARFORD MD- HIGHLAND VA-HOWARD MD-JEFFERSON WV-KING GEORGE VA-LOUDOUN VA- MADISON VA-MINERAL WV-MONTGOMERY MD-MORGAN WV-NELSON VA- NORTHERN BALTIMORE MD-ORANGE VA-PAGE VA-PENDLETON WV- PRINCE GEORGES MD-PRINCE WILLIAM/MANASSAS/MANASSAS PARK VA- RAPPAHANNOCK VA-ROCKINGHAM VA-SHENANDOAH VA-SOUTHERN BALTIMORE MD- SPOTSYLVANIA VA-ST. MARYS MD-STAFFORD VA-WARREN VA-WASHINGTON MD- 1119 AM EDT THU AUG 19 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MARYLAND WEST OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND EAST OF GARRETT COUNTY...EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND WASHINGTON DC. .DAY ONE... A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL ALLOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... HOT AND HUMID WEATHER MAY CAUSE HEAT INDICES TO APPROACH 100 DEGREES FRIDAY AFTERNOON. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 6:20 PM EDT, 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier | 67 min |
| Aug 19, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll | 75 min |
| Aug 19, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.