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Coastal Flood Statement 13, NWS Baltimore/Washington

September 2, 20065 counties in Virginia; 6 counties in Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this coastal flood statement at Sep 2, 2006, 2:24 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; 6 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Sep 2, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 2, 2006, 2:24 PM EDT (18:24 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 2, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
Expired: Sep 3, 2006, 6:00 AM EDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Arlington County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, Fairfax County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 coastal flood statement 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 coastal flood statement went out at Sep 2, 10:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 10:55 AM EDT, 3 hours 29 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
Sep 1, 10:17 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	LWX	Arlington, Culpeper, Fairfax, Greene, King George, Madison and 8 more	6 hr

Nearby

Coastal Flood Statements in Maryland, 2006 Coastal Flood Statements in Virginia, 2006 Every coastal flood statement in 2006

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.