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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Baltimore/Washington

January 3, 202512 counties in Virginia; Pendleton County, West Virginia

NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Jan 3, 2025, 3:15 AM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Pendleton County, West Virginia. It took effect at Jan 3, 2025, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2025, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 3, 2025, 6:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 4, 2025, 7:00 AM EST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Baltimore/Washington

Counties 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, Pendleton County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -5 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 2, 9:01 PM EST, 6 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 9:01 PM EST, 6 hours 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 2, 8:34 PM EST, 6 hours 41 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
Jan 2, 7:13 PM EST	Gale Warning	LWX		39 hr
Jan 3, 3:22 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	LWX		53 min
Jan 3, 3:27 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	LWX	Fairfax, City of Alexandria, City of Fairfax	35 min
Jan 3, 3:36 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	LWX	Fauquier, Frederick, Shenandoah, Warren	39 min
Jan 3, 3:47 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	LWX	Fairfax, City of Alexandria	32 min
Jan 3, 3:51 PM EST	Cold Weather Advisory	LWX	Highland	38 hr
Jan 3, 4:15 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	LWX		60 min
Jan 3, 4:56 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning Significant damage threat	LWX	Berkeley	13 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.