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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 28, 2005Caroline County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland; Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2005, 3:24 PM EDT for Caroline County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland; Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 36 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 28, 2005, 3:24 PM EDT (19:24 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2005, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1813 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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 281925
SVRPHI
DEC001-MDC011-035-282000-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0019.050528T1924Z-050528T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
324 PM EDT SAT MAY 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 314 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE SHOWERS AND STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE 
  EXTENDING FROM SUDLERSVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF CENTREVILLE...OR ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES WEST OF DOVER TO 36 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  DOVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE IN THE
  GUST FRONT AHEAD OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  SMYRNA...GOLDSBORO AND CHESWOLD BY 330 PM EDT
  WOODSIDE...DOVER AND CAMDEN BY 340 PM EDT
  VIOLA AND RISING SUN BY 345 PM EDT
  FREDERICA AND BOWERS BY 355 PM EDT

LAT...LON 3924 7593 3894 7619 3897 7535 3933 7549

$$

RNS

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Maryland, 2005 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.