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Flash Flood Warning 68, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 9, 2025Albemarle County, Nelson County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jul 9, 2025, 1:41 PM EDT for Albemarle County, Nelson County, Virginia. It was in force for 98 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
Jul 9, 2025, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2025, 3:19 PM EDT
In force
98 min
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

Counties Albemarle County, VA, Nelson County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 677 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
677 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 9, 10:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 10:28 AM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 9, 11:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX90 min
Jul 8, 8:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX83 min
Jul 8, 8:44 PM EDTFlood WatchLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 29 more24 hr
Jul 8, 10:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX78 min
Jul 9, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAugusta18 min
Jul 9, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXNelson31 min
Jul 9, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXNelson3 hr
Jul 9, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAlbemarle, Nelson31 min
Jul 9, 4:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXAlbemarle, Orange3 hr
Jul 9, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXGreene, Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Rockingham20 min
Jul 9, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXOrange, Spotsylvania44 min
Jul 9, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford25 min
Jul 9, 4:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX62 min
Jul 9, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax, Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford, City of Manassas, City of Manassas Park46 min
Jul 9, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX88 min
Jul 9, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCulpeper, Fauquier, King George, Prince William, Spotsylvania, Stafford and 1 more35 min
Jul 9, 5:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXArlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church3 hr
Jul 9, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXFairfax, City of Alexandria40 min
Jul 9, 6:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX91 min
Jul 9, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXArlington, Fairfax, City of Alexandria29 min
Jul 9, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX96 min
Jul 9, 7:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX84 min
Jul 9, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX91 min
Jul 9, 7:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningLWX56 min
Jul 9, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel41 min
Jul 9, 6:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXCarroll, Howard2 hr
Jul 9, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningLWXMontgomery, Prince George's18 min
Jul 9, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Prince George's34 min
Jul 9, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Calvert, Prince George's30 min
Jul 9, 7:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXAnne Arundel, Montgomery, Prince George's69 min
Jul 9, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWXBaltimore, Carroll, Harford3 hr
Jul 9, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWXCalvert, Saint Mary's33 min

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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.