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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Baltimore/Washington

December 28, 202512 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Garrett County, Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this high wind warning at Dec 28, 2025, 12:11 PM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Allegany County, Garrett County, Maryland; Grant County, Mineral County, Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Dec 29, 2025, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 33 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 28, 2025, 12:11 PM EST (17:11 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 29, 2025, 4:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 30, 2025, 1:20 PM EST
In force
33 hr
Issued by
NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta 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, Grant County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:14 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 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-28Temperature 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2025-12-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
147 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 28, 2:10 AM ESTGale WatchLWX10 hr
Dec 28, 2:10 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryLWX28 hr
Dec 28, 12:11 PM ESTWind AdvisoryLWXArlington, Clarke, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Greene and 19 more52 hr
Dec 28, 12:27 PM ESTGale WarningLWX51 hr
Dec 28, 1:26 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryLWXGarrett45 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.