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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 30, 201310 counties in Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jan 30, 2013, 9:12 PM EST for 10 counties in Virginia. 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: Jan 30, 2013, 9:12 PM EST (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 31, 2013, 3:15 AM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Albemarle County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Greene County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Orange County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 803 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 880 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 7.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jan 30, 9:00 PM EST, 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 9:00 PM EST, 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 6:52 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 30, 8:42 PM EST, 30 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 8:48 PM EST, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 8:58 PM EST, 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 30, 8:59 PM EST, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 9:00 PM EST, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 30, 9:03 PM EST, 9 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
Jan 30, 7:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church	26 min
Jan 30, 7:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford, City of Alexandria and 4 more	49 min
Jan 30, 8:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LWX	Arlington, City of Alexandria	32 min
Jan 30, 9:39 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Fauquier, Loudoun	6 hr
Jan 30, 9:42 PM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Loudoun	31 hr
Jan 30, 9:56 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Augusta, Highland, Page, Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg, City of Staunton and 1 more	6 hr
Jan 30, 10:30 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Loudoun, Prince William, City of Alexandria and 4 more	6 hr
Jan 30, 11:11 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Rockingham, Shenandoah	6 hr
Jan 31, 12:27 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LWX	King George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg	33 min
Jan 31, 2:20 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Augusta, Highland, Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg, City of Staunton, City of Waynesboro	3 hr
Jan 31, 2:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Albemarle, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene, Madison, Nelson and 5 more	17 hr
Jan 31, 2:46 AM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Clarke	7 hr
Jan 31, 2:54 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Highland, Spotsylvania, Stafford and 4 more	36 hr
Jan 31, 5:36 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Loudoun	7 hr
Jan 31, 7:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Clarke, Shenandoah, Warren	6 hr
Jan 31, 7:21 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Culpeper, Orange	11 hr
Jan 31, 7:31 AM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Fairfax	7 hr
Jan 31, 7:47 AM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Culpeper, Fauquier	10 min
Jan 31, 7:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Culpeper, Fauquier	20 hr
Jan 31, 9:36 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Loudoun	34 hr
Jan 31, 10:00 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Clarke	38 hr
Jan 31, 10:04 AM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Shenandoah, Warren	5 hr
Jan 31, 3:03 PM EST	Gale Warning	LWX		27 hr
Jan 31, 3:03 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		15 hr
Jan 30, 8:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LWX	Harford	24 min
Jan 30, 8:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	LWX	Anne Arundel	31 min
Jan 30, 9:31 PM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	23 hr
Jan 31, 1:21 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's	3 hr
Jan 31, 1:52 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Calvert, Saint Mary's	53 min
Jan 31, 2:39 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Frederick	28 hr
Jan 31, 7:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery	3 hr
Jan 31, 8:38 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Howard, Prince George's	13 hr
Jan 30, 9:50 PM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Berkeley, Jefferson	5 hr
Jan 31, 2:32 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Pendleton	5 hr
Jan 31, 2:32 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Berkeley, Jefferson	26 hr
Jan 31, 9:31 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Hampshire	11 hr
Jan 31, 2:46 PM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Morgan	16 hr

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.