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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 5, 202214 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this winter storm warning at Jan 5, 2022, 2:33 PM EST for 14 counties in Virginia; 5 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 6, 2022, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2022, 2:33 PM EST (19:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 6, 2022, 3:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 7, 2022, 4:57 AM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

All 27 counties

Allegany County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Frederick County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Frederick 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, 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), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 1209 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 323 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 5, 10:32 AM EST, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 10:32 AM EST, 4 hours 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 5, 1:23 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		17 hr
Jan 5, 2:47 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	LWX	Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Highland, Madison and 9 more	12 hr
Jan 5, 2:33 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	LWX	Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 22 more	39 hr
Jan 5, 3:08 PM EST	Gale Watch	LWX		13 hr
Jan 5, 6:46 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		18 hr
Jan 5, 6:46 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		62 hr
Jan 5, 12:16 PM EST	Wind Advisory	LWX	Grant, Pendleton	7 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Virginia, 2022 Winter Storm Warnings in West Virginia, 2022 Winter Storm Warnings in Maryland, 2022 Every winter storm warning in 2022

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.