A southerly flow around high pressure off the East Coast led to an unusually warm and humid air mass for this time of the year. The warm and humid air mass caused an unstable atmosphere to develop.
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The episode as NWS LWX wrote it up.
A southerly flow around high pressure off the East Coast led to an unusually warm and humid air mass for this time of the year. The warm and humid air mass caused an unstable atmosphere to develop. The combination of the instability and an approaching cold front led to the development of showers and thunderstorms. An isolated thunderstorm did produce damaging winds over the Virginia Piedmont.
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 93 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:00 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Two trees were topped near Welcome.
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