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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Jan 14, 2024, 2:09 AM EST for 27 counties in Virginia; 12 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 14, 2024, 8:00 AM EST. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2024, 2:09 AM EST (07:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2024, 8:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2024, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
All 47 counties
Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, Highland County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Page County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah 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), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 54 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
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 117 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 1:15 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 5 hr | |
| Jan 14, 9:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Frederick, City of Winchester | 63 min |
| Jan 14, 10:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Clarke | 32 min |
| Jan 14, 10:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Loudoun | 57 min |
| Jan 14, 10:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Loudoun | 60 min |
| Jan 14, 11:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax, City of Falls Church and 2 more | 33 min |
| Jan 14, 12:48 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 12 hr | |
| Jan 14, 2:35 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 30 more | 43 hr |
| Jan 14, 7:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Garrett | 43 min |
| Jan 14, 8:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Garrett | 43 min |
| Jan 14, 8:43 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | LWX | 3 hr | |
| Jan 14, 9:34 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Carroll | 56 min |
| Jan 14, 10:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Baltimore | 52 min |
| Jan 14, 10:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Baltimore, Harford, Howard, City of Baltimore | 66 min |
| Jan 14, 10:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Carroll, Frederick | 56 min |
| Jan 14, 10:55 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Baltimore | 50 min |
| Jan 14, 11:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LWX | Anne Arundel, Harford, City of Baltimore | 21 min |
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.