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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 2024, 3:25 PM EDT for Albemarle County, Virginia. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 27, 2024, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.0 in
County Albemarle County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 610 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 278 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 572 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 26, 5:04 PM EDT, 22 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 1:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Nelson, Page, Rockingham and 1 more | 19 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Augusta, Rockingham | 23 min |
| Sep 27, 4:18 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | LWX | Augusta, City of Waynesboro | 25 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Augusta, City of Waynesboro | 21 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Madison, Page, Rockingham | 6 hr |
| Sep 27, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 85 min | |
| Sep 27, 7:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Nelson | 13 hr |
| Sep 27, 1:45 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel | 15 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.