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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 160, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

November 16, 2005Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2005, 6:10 PM EST for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 35 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
Nov 16, 2005, 6:10 PM EST (23:10 UTC)
Expired
Nov 16, 2005, 6:45 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Kent County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 56 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2005-11-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2005-11-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 263 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
263 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 162310
SVRPHI
DEC001-162345-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0160.051116T2310Z-051116T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
610 PM EST WED NOV 16 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER

* UNTIL 645 PM EST

* AT 606 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAMDEN...OR ABOUT
  NEAR DOVER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LITTLE CREEK AND LEIPSIC BY 615 PM EST

LAT...LON 3920 7573 3904 7562 3906 7539 3933 7547

$$

EBERWINE/DELISI

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.