Alert archive / Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2006, 1:05 AM EST for Fauquier County, Virginia. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2006, 1:05 AM EST (06:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2006, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fauquier County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:07 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jan 13, 8:57 PM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 13, 8:57 PM EST, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 13, 9:35 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene and 20 more | 19 hr |
| Jan 14, 12:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Orange | 43 min |
| Jan 14, 12:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 38 min |
| Jan 14, 12:56 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Jan 14, 1:54 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Jan 14, 3:45 AM EST | Snow Advisory | LWX | 27 hr | |
| Jan 14, 4:28 PM EST | High Wind Warning | LWX | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene and 20 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 14, 4:28 PM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene and 20 more | 22 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.