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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Baltimore/Washington

August 9, 2007Carroll County, Frederick County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2007, 11:18 AM EDT for Carroll County, Frederick County, Maryland. It was in force for 72 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: Aug 9, 2007, 11:18 AM EDT (15:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2007, 12:30 PM EDT
In force: 72 min
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carroll County, MD, Frederick County, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:21 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 9, 9:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 65 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: 547 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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 Aug 9, 10:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 10:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:40 AM EDT, 38 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
Aug 9, 12:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		119 min
Aug 9, 12:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		86 min
Aug 9, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Rappahannock	41 min
Aug 9, 1:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		118 min
Aug 9, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Page	43 min
Aug 9, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Prince William	48 min
Aug 9, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Rockingham	35 min
Aug 9, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Stafford	67 min
Aug 9, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Prince William	28 min
Aug 9, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		95 min
Aug 9, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Albemarle	49 min
Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Albemarle	20 min
Aug 9, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		102 min
Aug 9, 10:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Washington	73 min
Aug 9, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Saint Mary's	44 min
Aug 9, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Charles	44 min
Aug 9, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Carroll, Frederick	44 min
Aug 9, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Grant	64 min
Aug 9, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Hardy	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.