Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 6, 2005Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 7:36 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 54 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
Jun 6, 2005, 7:36 PM EDT (23:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2005, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
54 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), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 6, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 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 2005-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 477 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2005-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 062336
SVRPHI
DEC001-070030-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0038.050606T2336Z-050607T0030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
736 PM EDT MON JUN 6 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

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 730 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15
  MILES WEST OF CLAYTON...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTH OF NEWARK...AND
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLAYTON BY 750 PM EDT
  HARTLY BY 755 PM EDT
  CHESWOLD BY 800 PM EDT
  DOVER...CAMDEN AND WOODSIDE BY 810 PM EDT
  RISING SUN AND VIOLA BY 815 PM EDT
  HARRINGTON BY 820 PM EDT

LAT...LON 3927 7573 3886 7569 3897 7540 3931 7551

$$

KRUZDLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2005Every 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.