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Wind Advisory 3, NWS Baltimore/Washington
NWS Baltimore/Washington issued this wind advisory at Feb 6, 2026, 1:55 AM EST for 12 counties in Virginia; Garrett County, Maryland. It took effect at Feb 7, 2026, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2026, 1:55 AM EST (06:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2026, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2026, 6:25 PM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Baltimore/Washington
Counties Garrett County, MD, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Fredericksburg, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Greene County, VA, King George County, VA, Madison County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Orange County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Stafford County, VA
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:59 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 00:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 Feb 5, 9:14 PM EST, 4 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 5, 9:14 PM EST, 4 hours 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 1:38 AM EST | Gale Warning | LWX | 28 hr | |
| Feb 6, 1:38 AM EST | Storm Warning | LWX | 40 hr | |
| Feb 6, 1:38 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | LWX | 52 hr | |
| Feb 6, 1:38 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | LWX | 52 hr | |
| Feb 6, 1:55 AM EST | Cold Weather Advisory | LWX | Arlington, Clarke, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick and 25 more | 56 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:55 AM EST | High Wind Warning | LWX | Albemarle, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Clarke, Fairfax and 23 more | 44 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:59 PM EST | Low Water Advisory | LWX | 47 hr |
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.