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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2015, 6:02 PM EDT for Saint Mary's County, Maryland. It was in force for 30 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
- Aug 4, 2015, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2015, 6:32 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Saint Mary's County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 Aug 4, 2:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 2:21 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 4, 5:33 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 4, 3:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Frederick, Shenandoah | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 3:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Clarke, Frederick, Loudoun, Shenandoah, City of Winchester | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 4:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Loudoun | 53 min |
| Aug 4, 4:28 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 62 min | |
| Aug 4, 4:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 92 min | |
| Aug 4, 5:36 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 84 min | |
| Aug 4, 1:28 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 29 hr | |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 39 min | |
| Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 97 min | |
| Aug 4, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 24 min |
| Aug 4, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 90 min | |
| Aug 4, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 83 min | |
| Aug 4, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 84 min | |
| Aug 4, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax, City of Alexandria | 18 min |
| Aug 4, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany, Washington | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 2:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Carroll, Frederick, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 25 min |
| Aug 4, 2:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 39 min |
| Aug 4, 2:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 3:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Baltimore, Harford | 30 min |
| Aug 4, 4:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and 2 more | 56 min |
| Aug 4, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 18 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.