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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Baltimore/Washington

May 27, 20155 counties in Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2015, 1:19 PM EDT for 5 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 41 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
May 27, 2015, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2015, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Clarke County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:22 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2015-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 428 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2015-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX94 min
May 27, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFrederick, Washington40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.