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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Baltimore/Washington

September 17, 2004Greene County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Sep 17, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT for Greene County, Virginia. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2004, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 17, 5:25 PM EDT	TORNADO	Stanardsville, VA	STRUCTURAL DAMAGE AND TREES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 17, 1:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 150 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.

000 
WFUS51 KLWX 172115
TORLWX
VAC079-172145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
515 PM EDT FRI SEP 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STERLING VIRGINIA HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT...DOPPLER INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST
  OF STANARDSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...STANARDSVILLE.

TORNADOES IN HILLY OR MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS -
TAKE COVER NOW YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO
COMING.

LAT...LON 3828 7863 3823 7850 3832 7841 3845 7846

$$

CS/DM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 17, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Nelson	44 min
Sep 17, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Albemarle, City of Charlottesville	61 min
Sep 17, 3:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Spotsylvania, City of Fredericksburg	53 min
Sep 17, 3:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Madison, Rappahannock	63 min
Sep 17, 3:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Orange	41 min
Sep 17, 3:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Culpeper	28 min
Sep 17, 3:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Albemarle, City of Charlottesville	3 hr
Sep 17, 3:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Warren	46 min
Sep 17, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Greene	40 min
Sep 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fauquier	65 min
Sep 17, 3:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Greene	46 min
Sep 17, 4:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Madison	54 min
Sep 17, 4:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg	55 min
Sep 17, 4:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	59 min
Sep 17, 4:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Page	39 min
Sep 17, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Albemarle, City of Charlottesville	51 min
Sep 17, 4:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	61 min
Sep 17, 4:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fauquier, Loudoun	62 min
Sep 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Stafford	36 min
Sep 17, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Greene	49 min
Sep 17, 5:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Orange	31 min
Sep 17, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Madison	52 min
Sep 17, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Page	64 min
Sep 17, 5:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	45 min
Sep 17, 5:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Culpeper	43 min
Sep 17, 5:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fairfax, City of Fairfax	52 min
Sep 17, 5:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Prince William, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	16 min
Sep 17, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Madison	3 hr
Sep 17, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Loudoun	65 min
Sep 17, 6:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fauquier	55 min
Sep 17, 6:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Frederick	29 min
Sep 17, 6:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	King George	56 min
Sep 17, 6:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		113 min
Sep 17, 6:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Frederick, City of Winchester	3 hr
Sep 17, 7:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Clarke	60 min
Sep 17, 7:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Culpeper	66 min
Sep 17, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Fairfax, Prince William, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church	64 min
Sep 17, 7:21 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Orange, Rappahannock, Warren	3 hr
Sep 17, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Stafford	51 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.