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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2026, 11:50 PM EDT for Nelson County, Virginia. It was in force for 12 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2026, 11:50 PM EDT (03:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2026, 12:02 AM EDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Nelson County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 2535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.1
- Supercell composite
- 17.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Baltimore/Washington issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Rockingham, City of Harrisonburg | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Madison, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah, Warren | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Greene, Madison, Page, Rockingham | 28 min |
| Jul 21, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LWX | Greene, Rockingham | 27 min |
| Jul 21, 9:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 90 min | |
| Jul 21, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 114 min | |
| Jul 21, 10:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 89 min | |
| Jul 21, 10:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 2 hr | |
| Jul 21, 11:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 82 min | |
| Jul 22, 2:24 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 16 min | |
| Jul 22, 2:33 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | LWX | 31 hr | |
| Jul 22, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 61 min | |
| Jul 22, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 90 min | |
| Jul 22, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | King George, Spotsylvania, Stafford, City of Fredericksburg | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 94 min | |
| Jul 22, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | LWX | 50 min | |
| Jul 21, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert, Charles, Prince George's, Saint Mary's | 45 min |
| Jul 21, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Calvert, Charles, Saint Mary's | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 11:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 23 min |
| Jul 22, 12:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | LWX | Anne Arundel, Howard | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LWX | Saint Mary's | 49 min |
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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.