Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
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.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 48 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.