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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Baltimore/Washington

December 18, 202514 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this high wind warning at Dec 18, 2025, 11:53 AM EST for 14 counties in Virginia; 4 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 19, 2025, 3:17 AM EST. It was in force for 18 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
Dec 18, 2025, 11:53 AM EST (16:53 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 19, 2025, 3:17 AM EST
Expired
Dec 19, 2025, 9:41 PM EST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington
All 26 counties

Allegany County, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Frederick County, 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, 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), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 18, 1:47 AM ESTWind AdvisoryLWXAlbemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Fairfax and 24 more47 hr
Dec 18, 2:14 AM ESTGale WarningLWX45 hr
Dec 18, 11:55 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX16 hr
Dec 18, 1:47 AM ESTHigh Wind WatchLWXAllegany, Garrett10 hr
Dec 18, 12:42 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryLWXGarrett32 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Virginia, 2025High Wind Warnings in West Virginia, 2025High Wind Warnings in Maryland, 2025Every high wind warning in 2025

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.