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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 2, 2000Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 9:24 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 21 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, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sussex County, DE

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 9:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ELewes, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2127 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2000-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-90 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1152 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

336 
WUUS51 KPHI 030127
SVRPHL
DEC005-030145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
924 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE
  AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE DELAWARE BAY AND ATLANTIC OCEAN.

* UNTIL 945 PM EDT.

* AT 921 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWES...OR ABOUT 29
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF DOVER...MOVING EASTSOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  REHOBOTH BEACH AT 930 PM EDT...

FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.

NNNN

LAT...LON 3893 7521 3876 7534 3862 7475 3888 7473

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Sussex49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 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.