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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 11, 202415 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Jan 11, 2024, 3:10 PM EST for 15 counties in Virginia; 8 counties in Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 12, 2024, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 31 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 11, 2024, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2024, 10:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 13, 2024, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 31 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

All 26 counties

Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Harford County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, 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, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 261 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.

Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 10, 5:57 PM EST, 21 hours 13 minutes 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 10, 9:30 PM EST	River Flood Watch	LWX	Loudoun	6 hr
Jan 11, 3:22 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LWX	Loudoun	8 hr
Jan 11, 1:29 PM EST	Gale Warning	LWX		53 hr
Jan 11, 1:29 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	LWX		4 hr
Jan 11, 2:06 PM EST	Flood Watch	LWX	Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Culpeper, Fairfax and 21 more	33 hr
Jan 11, 3:27 AM EST	Coastal Flood Watch	LWX	Anne Arundel	25 hr
Jan 11, 3:10 PM EST	High Wind Warning	LWX		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.