Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 7:37 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware; Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2000, 7:37 PM EDT (23:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Kent County, DE, Queen Anne's County, MD
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dover, DE |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 022338 SVRPHL DEC001-MDC035-030030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 737 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE. NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. * UNTIL 830 PM EDT. * AT 732 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER SUDLERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES WEST OF DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESWOLD AT 805 PM EDT... CAMDEN...DOVER...VIOLA...WOODSIDE AT 815 PM EDT... RISING SUN AT 820 PM EDT... HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASsE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. NNNN LAT...LON 3925 7583 3915 7588 3900 7553 3921 7543
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Talbot | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.