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Flash Flood Warning 48, NWS Baltimore/Washington

August 23, 2014Albemarle County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Aug 23, 2014, 2:04 AM EDT for Albemarle County, 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
Aug 23, 2014, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 23, 2014, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Albemarle County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2014-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 23, 1:32 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryLWXArlington, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church45 hr
Aug 23, 1:42 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX20 hr
Aug 23, 6:31 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryLWXArlington, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church113 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.