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Freeze Warning 7, NWS Baltimore/Washington

April 9, 20125 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Maryland; 5 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this freeze warning at Apr 9, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Maryland; 5 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Apr 10, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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: Apr 9, 2012, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 10, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 10, 2012, 7:34 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Allegany County, MD, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, Highland County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 1202 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 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 freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 9, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 12:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 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
Apr 8, 8:19 PM EDT	Red Flag Warning	LWX	Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 21 more	23 hr
Apr 8, 11:05 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		19 hr
Apr 9, 3:45 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	LWX	Highland	11 hr
Apr 9, 10:34 AM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	LWX	Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 21 more	10 hr
Apr 9, 12:37 PM EDT	Gale Warning	LWX		7 hr
Apr 9, 12:37 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		5 hr
Apr 9, 2:32 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	LWX	Highland, Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro	13 hr
Apr 9, 5:40 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		44 hr
Apr 9, 7:47 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		42 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Virginia, 2012 Freeze Warnings in West Virginia, 2012 Freeze Warnings in Maryland, 2012 Every freeze warning in 2012

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.