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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this high wind warning at Jan 8, 2024, 2:33 PM EST for 10 counties in Virginia; 10 counties in Maryland. It took effect at Jan 9, 2024, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 6 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 8, 2024, 2:33 PM EST (19:33 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2024, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2024, 9:09 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
Counties Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Arlington County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, Fairfax County, VA, King George County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Stafford County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 285 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 8, 10:20 AM EST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 10:20 AM EST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 8, 10:10 AM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jan 7, 10:00 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 11 hr | |
| Jan 8, 1:57 AM EST | Flood Watch | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 30 more | 44 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:48 AM EST | Wind Advisory | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Fairfax, Fauquier and 20 more | 41 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:52 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Augusta, Greene, Highland, Madison and 10 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:30 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 34 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:46 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Culpeper, Fauquier | 24 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:40 PM EST | Gale Warning | LWX | 22 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:40 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 21 hr | |
| Jan 8, 2:40 PM EST | Storm Warning | LWX | 31 hr | |
| Jan 8, 3:41 PM EST | Coastal Flood Warning | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, King George, Prince William, Stafford, City of Alexandria and 4 more | 47 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:41 PM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | LWX | Arlington, King George, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church | 30 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:48 AM EST | High Wind Watch | LWX | Saint Mary's | 11 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:32 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Washington | 31 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:36 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Washington | 21 days |
| Jan 8, 10:39 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Frederick | 31 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:44 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Montgomery | 31 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:41 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Morgan | 23 hr |
| Jan 8, 10:51 AM EST | River Flood Watch | LWX | Berkeley, Jefferson | 31 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.