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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

February 21, 200813 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in Maryland; 7 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this winter storm warning at Feb 21, 2008, 2:38 PM EST for 13 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in Maryland; 7 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 21, 2008, 9:00 PM EST. It was in force for 16 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: Feb 21, 2008, 2:38 PM EST (19:38 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 21, 2008, 9:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 22, 2008, 12:48 PM EST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

All 28 counties

Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Arlington County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Morgan County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:38 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1238 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 21, 10:59 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 10:59 AM EST, 3 hours 39 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
Feb 20, 10:07 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	LWX		9 hr
Feb 20, 10:07 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	LWX	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene and 20 more	17 hr
Feb 21, 2:38 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene and 20 more	42 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in Maryland, 2008 Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2008 Every winter storm 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.