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Wind Advisory 7, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Feb 26, 2020, 3:15 AM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 27, 2020, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2020, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2020, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2020, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
Counties Allegany County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Greene County, VA, Highland County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Warren County, VA, Grant County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:17 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 542 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 25, 9:27 PM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 9:27 PM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:54 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Culpeper, Fauquier, Greene and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:17 AM EST | Gale Warning | LWX | 35 hr | |
| Feb 26, 3:17 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 4 days | |
| Feb 26, 2:20 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 4 days | |
| Feb 26, 5:07 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Grant, Pendleton | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.