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Flash Flood Warning 32, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 28, 2005City of Baltimore, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jun 28, 2005, 7:02 PM EDT for City of Baltimore, Maryland. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2005, 7:02 PM EDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2005, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County City of Baltimore, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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 nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 109 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 28, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 6:05 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 2:45 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
245 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0130 PM     TSTM WND DMG     DEER RUN                38.72N 79.23W
06/28/2005                   PENDLETON          WV   AMATEUR RADIO

            TREES DOWNED

&&

MANNING

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:22 PM EDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
422 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0400 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BALTIMORE               39.30N 76.61W
06/28/2005                   BALTIMORE CITY     MD   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TREES DOWN IN NORTHWEST BALTIMORE CITY.

&&

MANNING

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:24 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
424 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 W BROADWAY            38.61N 78.83W
06/28/2005                   ROCKINGHAM         VA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TREES DOWNED

&&

MANNING

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
446 PM EDT TUE JUN 28 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0420 PM     TSTM WND DMG     BALTIMORE               39.30N 76.61W
06/28/2005                   BALTIMORE CITY     MD   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            TREES DOWNED.

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MANNING

Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 5:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Shenandoah	40 min
Jun 28, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Page	31 min
Jun 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		42 min
Jun 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		63 min
Jun 28, 6:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Greene	3 hr
Jun 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		92 min
Jun 28, 3:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	City of Baltimore	113 min
Jun 28, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore, City of Baltimore	56 min
Jun 28, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Carroll	43 min
Jun 28, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Baltimore	63 min
Jun 28, 5:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Baltimore	3 hr
Jun 28, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Howard	41 min
Jun 28, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Pendleton	40 min
Jun 28, 1:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Grant	2 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 2005 Every flash flood warning in 2005

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.