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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2019, 5:02 PM EDT for Augusta County, Virginia. It was in force for 43 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 31, 2019, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2019, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Augusta County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 906 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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.
Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 7:45 PM EDT, 21 hours 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 42 min | |
| May 31, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Nelson | 17 min |
| May 31, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Augusta, Rockingham | 28 min |
| May 31, 6:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson, City of Charlottesville | 3 hr |
| May 31, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Greene, Orange, Rockingham | 38 min |
| May 31, 6:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Page, Rockingham | 2 hr |
| May 31, 6:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, City of Charlottesville | 2 hr |
| May 31, 7:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Greene, Orange | 71 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Virginia, 2019Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019
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.