Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 200, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2006, 9:58 PM EDT for Kent 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
- Jul 22, 2006, 9:58 PM EDT (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2006, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 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), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:58 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2049 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 780 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 230158 SVRPHI DEC001-230245- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0200.060723T0158Z-060723T0245Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 958 PM EDT SAT JUL 22 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 1045 PM EDT * AT 954 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 WOODSIDE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CAMDEN BY 1005 PM EDT... RISING SUN AND DOVER BY 1010 PM EDT... BOWERS BY 1020 PM EDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3918 7560 3900 7564 3902 7522 3922 7525 $$ STAUBER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 9:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 12:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.