Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 24, 2006, 4:55 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 50 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
- Sep 24, 2006, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 24, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 947 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 242055 SVRPHI DEC001-242145- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0268.060924T2055Z-060924T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 455 PM EDT SUN SEP 24 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF DOVER... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHESWOLD... OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF DOVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WAS INTENSIFYING AND IS LIKELY TO BECOME SEVERE SOON. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHESWOLD BY 500 PM EDT... DOVER AND CAMDEN BY 505 PM EDT... RISING SUN BY 510 PM EDT... BOWERS BY 520 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 3920 7569 3911 7567 3901 7536 3930 7543 $$ TFG
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 242117 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 517 PM EDT SUN SEP 24 2006 DEC001-242127- /O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0268.000000T0000Z-060924T2145Z/ KENT DE- 517 PM EDT SUN SEP 24 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN KENT COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM WAS NOW OVER UPPER DELAWARE BAY. $$ TFG
Nearby
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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.