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Flash Flood Warning 54, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jul 7, 2013, 2:42 PM EDT for Hampshire County, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 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
- Jul 7, 2013, 2:42 PM EDT (18:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2013, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 285 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1178 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 7, 1:56 PM EDT, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 1:56 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 1:46 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BALTIMORE MD/WASHINGTON DC 146 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 ANZ530>543-DCZ001-MDZ006-007-011-013-014-016>018-VAZ052>057- 081015- CHESAPEAKE BAY NORTH OF POOLES ISLAND MD- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM POOLES ISLAND TO SANDY POINT MD- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM SANDY POINT TO NORTH BEACH MD- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM NORTH BEACH TO DRUM POINT MD- CHESAPEAKE BAY FROM DRUM POINT MD TO SMITH POINT VA- TIDAL POTOMAC FROM KEY BRIDGE TO INDIAN HEAD MD- TIDAL POTOMAC FROM INDIAN HEAD TO COBB ISLAND MD- TIDAL POTOMAC FROM COBB ISLAND MD TO SMITH POINT VA- PATAPSCO RIVER INCLUDING BALTIMORE HARBOR- CHESTER RIVER TO QUEENSTOWN MD-EASTERN BAY- CHOPTANK RIVER TO CAMBRIDGE MD AND THE LITTLE CHOPTANK RIVER- PATUXENT RIVER TO BROOMES ISLAND MD- TANGIER SOUND AND THE INLAND WATERS SURROUNDING BLOODSWORTH ISLAND-DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-NORTHERN BALTIMORE-HARFORD- SOUTHERN BALTIMORE-PRINCE GEORGES-ANNE ARUNDEL-CHARLES-ST. MARYS- CALVERT-PRINCE WILLIAM/MANASSAS/MANASSAS PARK-FAIRFAX- ARLINGTON/FALLS CHURCH/ALEXANDRIA-STAFFORD-SPOTSYLVANIA- KING GEORGE- 146 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE MARYLAND PORTION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY...TIDAL POTOMAC RIVER...AND ADJACENT COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MARYLAND AND NORTHERN VIRGINIA AS WELL AS THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE BALTIMORE AND WASHINGTON DC METROPOLITAN AREAS UNTIL 8PM. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING FOR THE MARYLAND PORTION OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY...BALTIMORE HARBOR...ALL EASTERN INLETS...AND THE MOUTH OF THE POTOMAC RIVER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. MDZ003>005-009-010-501-502-VAZ025>031-036>040-042-050-051-501>504- WVZ050>053-055-501>506-081015- WASHINGTON-FREDERICK MD-CARROLL-MONTGOMERY-HOWARD- EXTREME WESTERN ALLEGANY-CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALLEGANY-AUGUSTA- ROCKINGHAM-SHENANDOAH-FREDERICK VA-PAGE-WARREN-CLARKE-NELSON- ALBEMARLE-GREENE-MADISON-RAPPAHANNOCK-LOUDOUN-ORANGE-CULPEPER- NORTHERN FAUQUIER-SOUTHERN FAUQUIER-WESTERN HIGHLAND- EASTERN HIGHLAND-HAMPSHIRE-MORGAN-BERKELEY-JEFFERSON-HARDY- WESTERN GRANT-EASTERN GRANT-WESTERN MINERAL-EASTERN MINERAL- WESTERN PENDLETON-EASTERN PENDLETON- 146 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN WEST VIRGINIA... NORTHERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA...AND CENTRAL AND WESTERN MARYLAND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF GARRETT COUNTY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR NORTHERN VIRGINIA...CENTRAL MARYLAND...THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY NORTH OF HARRISONBURG...AND THE POTOMAC HIGHLANDS UNTIL 8PM. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE SKYWARN SPOTTER NETWORK HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. HTS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:20 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 14 hr | |
| Jul 7, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 45 min |
| Jul 7, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Fauquier, Loudoun, Warren | 38 min |
| Jul 7, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Jul 7, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 118 min | |
| Jul 7, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 7, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 7, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick | 41 min |
| Jul 7, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Hampshire, Hardy | 47 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in West Virginia, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013
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.