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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 11, 2004Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT for Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville, Virginia. It was in force for 66 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
Jun 11, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Albemarle County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2004-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

672 
WFUS51 KLWX 111954
TORLWX
VAC003-540-112100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
354 PM EDT FRI JUN 11 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  ALBEMARLE COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT.

* AT 354 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4
  MILES NORTHWEST OF WHITE HALL. THIS DANGEROUS STORM IS MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  CHARLOTTESVILLE...CROZET AND FREE UNION.

IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW IF NO
UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS

LAT...LON 3824 7871 3820 7875 3810 7879 3789 7841
          3810 7821

$$
MANNING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAlbemarle, City of Charlottesville60 min
Jun 11, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXNelson49 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.