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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

January 14, 2006Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 2006, 4:58 AM EST for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 47 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: Jan 14, 2006, 4:58 AM EST (09:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2006, 5:45 AM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Sussex County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:58 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 14, 2:46 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 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 140958
SVRPHI
DEC005-141045-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0002.060114T0958Z-060114T1045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
458 AM EST SAT JAN 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS EXTENDED THE

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SUSSEX COUNTY IN SOUTHERN DELAWARE

* UNTIL 545 AM EST

* AT 452 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEWES TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  SELBYVILLE AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  REHOBOTH BEACH BY 505 AM EST
  FENWICK ISLAND BY 510 AM EST

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 3845 7524 3886 7524 3880 7517 3878 7511
      3880 7508 3878 7507 3873 7508 3869 7506
      3856 7506 3845 7504

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 14, 4:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	54 min
Jan 14, 4:32 AM EST	Wind Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle, Sussex	37 hr
Jan 14, 3:35 PM EST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle, Sussex	18 hr

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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.