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Wind Advisory 9, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Mar 5, 2025, 1:12 PM EST for 29 counties in Virginia; 15 counties in Maryland; 8 counties in West Virginia. It took effect at Mar 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 27 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2025, 1:12 PM EST (18:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 5, 2025, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 27 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
All 52 counties
Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Saint Mary'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 Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Greene County, VA, Highland County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Page County, VA, Prince William 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 675 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fauquier, Prince William, Stafford | 34 min |
| Mar 5, 12:29 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 62 min | |
| Mar 5, 1:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Fairfax | 24 min |
| Mar 5, 1:58 PM EST | Gale Warning | LWX | 36 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:05 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 38 min | |
| Mar 5, 2:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 34 min | |
| Mar 5, 3:09 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 15 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:24 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | LWX | 33 hr | |
| Mar 5, 2:57 AM EST | Coastal Flood Advisory | LWX | Anne Arundel | 19 hr |
| Mar 5, 6:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Allegany | 29 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.