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Wind Advisory 22, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Nov 15, 2025, 12:20 AM EST for 25 counties in Virginia; 13 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Nov 15, 2025, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2025, 12:20 AM EST (05:20 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 15, 2025, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2025, 9:09 AM EST
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
All 46 counties
Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Albemarle County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Augusta County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, Highland County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Page County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah 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), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 14, 8:50 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 14, 8:50 PM EST, 3 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 12:20 AM EST | Gale Watch | LWX | 12 hr | |
| Nov 15, 12:20 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 30 hr | |
| Nov 15, 12:14 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | LWX | Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax and 24 more | 12 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:32 PM EST | Gale Warning | LWX | 35 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.