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Flash Flood Warning 87, NWS Baltimore/Washington

July 13, 2025Greene County, Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2025, 11:18 PM EDT for Greene County, Virginia. It was in force for 3 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: Jul 13, 2025, 11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2025, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

County Greene County, VA

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 1379 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 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 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 13, 9:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 9:06 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 10:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 13, 9:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 13, 9:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 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
Jul 14, 2:36 AM EDT	Flood Watch	LWX	Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper and 29 more	20 hr
Jul 14, 3:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Warren	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Page, Shenandoah, Warren	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		94 min
Jul 14, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		48 min
Jul 14, 5:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Arlington, Fairfax	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		95 min
Jul 14, 6:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Arlington	92 min
Jul 14, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		97 min
Jul 14, 7:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Fairfax	4 hr
Jul 14, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		93 min
Jul 14, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		83 min
Jul 14, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	LWX		97 min
Jul 14, 8:06 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	LWX	Anne Arundel	114 min
Jul 14, 2:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Washington	3 hr
Jul 14, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel	27 min
Jul 14, 6:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Montgomery, Prince George's	2 hr
Jul 14, 6:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, City of Baltimore	3 hr
Jul 14, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Prince George's, City of Baltimore	46 min
Jul 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel	15 min
Jul 14, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Charles, Prince George's	43 min
Jul 14, 6:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel, Howard, Prince George's	2 hr
Jul 14, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LWX	Anne Arundel	38 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LWX	Hampshire	104 min
Jul 14, 5:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	LWX	Pendleton	3 hr

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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.