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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 25, 2004Kent County, Delaware; Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2004, 9:30 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware; Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 30 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
May 25, 2004, 9:30 PM EDT (01:30 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 25, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 2004-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2004-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

124 
WUUS51 KPHI 260130
SVRPHI
DEC001-MDC011-260200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
928 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED THE

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER
  SOUTHERN CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 926 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM HARRINGTON TO FEDERALSBURG...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER TO 37 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  DOVER...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HARRINGTON AND FEDERALSBURG BY 940 PM EDT

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

LAT...LON 3925 7545 3874 7601 3867 7572 3883 7574
          3897 7532

$$

RPW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle61 min
May 25, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent54 min
May 25, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex68 min
May 25, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIQueen Anne's35 min
May 25, 9:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIQueen Anne's26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.