Alert archive / Maryland / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 25, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 2006, 9:10 AM EDT for Caroline County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland; Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 3 hr. 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 26, 2006, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2006, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:10 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 nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KPHI 261311 FFWPHI DEC001-005-MDC011-035-261615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 910 AM EDT MON JUN 26 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WESTERN KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE CAROLINE COUNTY IN EASTERN MARYLAND NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE * UNTIL 1215 PM EDT * AT 906 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES FLASH FLOODING FROM A NEARLY STATIONARY AREA OF HEAVY RAIN. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SUDLERSVILLE...RIDGELY...GREENSBORO...GOLDSBORO...DENTON... WOODSIDE...VIOLA...HARTLY...HARRINGTON AND BRIDGEVILLE EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. LAT...LON 3866 7596 3859 7552 3921 7556 3924 7588 $$ PO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 10:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cecil | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's | 118 min |
| Jun 26, 1:45 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 24 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Maryland, 2006Flash Flood Warnings in Delaware, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006
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.