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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Baltimore/Washington

February 18, 202225 counties in Virginia; 15 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Feb 18, 2022, 2:18 PM EST for 25 counties in Virginia; 15 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 18, 2022, 2:18 PM EST (19:18 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 19, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 19, 2022, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

All 48 counties

Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, Highland County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 49 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1208 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 113 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 17, 3:03 PM EST, 23 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 3:03 PM EST, 23 hours 15 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 18, 1:17 AM EST	Storm Warning	LWX	8 hr
Feb 18, 11:10 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX	14 hr
Feb 18, 2:20 PM EST	Gale Warning	LWX	34 hr
Feb 18, 6:28 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	20 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.