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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 2006, 6:02 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 2006, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2006, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 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), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 6:20 PM EDT | TSTM WND GST 66 | Dover, DE |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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 042202 SVRPHI DEC001-042230- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0134.060704T2202Z-060704T2230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 602 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CAMDEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF DOVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RISING SUN BY 610 PM EDT... LAT...LON 3917 7565 3907 7563 3906 7539 3923 7540 $$ JJM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 28 min |
| Jul 4, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 89 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2006Every severe thunderstorm 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.