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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2014, 4:39 PM EDT for Howard County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was in force for 36 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
- Sep 2, 2014, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 497 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 2, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 2, 12:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 57 min | |
| Sep 2, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun | 52 min |
| Sep 2, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Loudoun | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 64 min | |
| Sep 2, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Loudoun | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 46 min | |
| Sep 2, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 52 min | |
| Sep 2, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 58 min | |
| Sep 2, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 51 min | |
| Sep 2, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Montgomery | 49 min |
| Sep 2, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Washington | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Howard, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, City of Baltimore | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Harford, City of Baltimore | 39 min |
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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.