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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2018, 10:14 AM EDT for Pendleton County, West Virginia. It was in force for 16 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 12, 2018, 10:14 AM EDT (14:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2018, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:15 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 12, 4:08 AM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 4:08 AM EDT, 6 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 8:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 87 min | |
| Aug 11, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 114 min | |
| Aug 11, 9:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 77 min | |
| Aug 12, 12:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Highland | 20 min |
| Aug 12, 12:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 23 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 12, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 1:22 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Rappahannock | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 1:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Page, Warren | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 2:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Greene, Madison | 10 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Greene, Madison, Orange | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson | 37 min |
| Aug 12, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Orange, Spotsylvania, Stafford | 72 min |
| Aug 12, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Orange, Spotsylvania | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 12, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George, Spotsylvania, Stafford | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 4:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 12, 4:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Stafford | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 76 min | |
| Aug 12, 5:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 46 min | |
| Aug 12, 5:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier, Orange | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 91 min | |
| Aug 12, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 119 min | |
| Aug 12, 7:26 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 94 min | |
| Aug 11, 9:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Calvert | 5 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LWX | Calvert | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Frederick | 4 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Charles | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 5:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Charles | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:27 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Charles | 5 hr |
| Aug 12, 10:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Grant, Pendleton | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 11:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Pendleton | 82 min |
| Aug 12, 11:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Grant, Hardy, Pendleton | 3 hr |
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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.