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Flash Flood Warning 85, NWS Baltimore/Washington

June 27, 20064 counties in Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2006, 8:58 PM EDT for 4 counties in Maryland. It was in force for 6 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 27, 2006, 8:58 PM EDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2006, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Harford County, MD

The radar

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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 27, 6:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 3:58 PM EDT, 5 hours before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC
358 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 2006

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

0330 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HAGERSTOWN              39.64N 77.72W
06/27/2006                   WASHINGTON         MD   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            SEVERAL ROAD CLOSURES IN HAGERSTOWN. BASEMENT FLOODING
            REPORTED.

&&

SMZ

Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 6:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 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 27, 8:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Fairfax, Prince William, City of Fairfax, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park	6 hr
Jun 27, 8:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Albemarle, Greene, Madison, City of Charlottesville	6 hr
Jun 27, 8:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Page, Rappahannock, Warren	6 hr
Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg	6 hr
Jun 27, 9:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Frederick, Shenandoah, City of Winchester	6 hr
Jun 27, 9:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Augusta, Nelson, Rockingham	6 hr
Jun 27, 10:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Culpeper, Orange	6 hr
Jun 27, 11:04 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	LWX	Clarke, Culpeper, Frederick, Greene, Madison, Nelson and 13 more	5 hr
Jun 28, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Frederick	58 min
Jun 28, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		90 min
Jun 27, 11:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery	6 hr
Jun 27, 11:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Washington	6 hr
Jun 28, 12:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	4 hr
Jun 28, 2:54 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Baltimore, Harford, City of Baltimore	3 hr
Jun 28, 4:15 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	6 hr
Jun 28, 10:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	4 hr
Jun 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	6 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 2006 Every flash flood warning 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.