Alert archive / Maryland / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2003, 5:46 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware; Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 74 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2003, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 74 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kent County, DE, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
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 9, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -276 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1775 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
092 WUUS51 KPHI 092146 SVRPHI DEC001-MDC029-035-092300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 546 PM EDT WED JUL 9 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE. EAST CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND. * UNTIL 700 PM EDT. * AT 541 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER MILLINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BOWERS... CAMDEN... CHESWOLD... CLAYTON... DOVER... HARTLY... RISING SUN... MILLINGTON... LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEAST MARYLAND. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING. LAT...LON 3931 7589 3920 7591 3902 7539 3927 7541 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 52 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2003Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.