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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 20, 20105 counties in Maryland

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 20, 2010, 4:59 PM EDT for 5 counties in Maryland. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 20, 2010, 4:59 PM EDT (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2010, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Howard County, MD

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2010-07-20Temperature 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2010-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 9:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX85 min
Jul 19, 9:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX2 hr
Jul 20, 12:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX94 min
Jul 20, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX39 min
Jul 20, 4:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXAugusta, Nelson, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro58 min
Jul 20, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX119 min
Jul 20, 4:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXAlbemarle, City of Charlottesville36 min
Jul 20, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXCulpeper, Rappahannock29 min
Jul 20, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXFairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, City of Fairfax, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park64 min
Jul 20, 7:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX78 min
Jul 19, 9:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXCharles38 min
Jul 19, 10:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXCalvert, Saint Mary's24 min
Jul 20, 12:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXHarford34 min
Jul 20, 1:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXHarford29 min
Jul 20, 1:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXHarford62 min
Jul 20, 4:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXHoward, City of Baltimore42 min
Jul 20, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, City of Baltimore46 min
Jul 20, 5:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXCity of Baltimore44 min
Jul 20, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Baltimore, City of Baltimore25 min
Jul 20, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementLWXHarford58 min
Jul 20, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXBaltimore, Carroll, Harford51 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.