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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Baltimore/Washington

April 28, 2008Anne Arundel County, Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2008, 2:49 PM EDT for Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was in force for 30 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
Apr 28, 2008, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2008, 3:19 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Anne Arundel County, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2008-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 306 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
306 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
339 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 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 Apr 27, 2:55 PM EDT, 23 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 2:55 PM EDT, 23 hours 54 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX2 hr
Apr 28, 2:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX2 hr
Apr 28, 3:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX49 min
Apr 28, 4:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX90 min
Apr 28, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCharles, Prince George's36 min
Apr 28, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel27 min
Apr 28, 4:03 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWXBaltimore, City of Baltimore4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.