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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

February 8, 202312 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Maryland; 5 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Feb 8, 2023, 12:01 PM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Maryland; 5 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Feb 9, 2023, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 2023, 12:01 PM EST (17:01 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 9, 2023, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Feb 10, 2023, 7:00 AM EST
In force
20 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, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2023-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2023-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 170 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 8, 2:50 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX11 hr
Feb 8, 12:07 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX54 hr

Nearby

Wind Advisories in Virginia, 2023Wind Advisories in West Virginia, 2023Wind Advisories in Maryland, 2023Every wind advisory in 2023

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.