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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 9, 2006Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2006, 2:40 PM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 35 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: Jun 9, 2006, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2006, 3:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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
Jun 9, 2:50 PM EDT	HAIL 0.25	Chestertown, MD	PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN CHESTERTOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1029 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 091840
SVRPHI
MDC029-035-091915-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0076.060609T1840Z-060609T1915Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
240 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND
  NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND

* UNTIL 315 PM EDT

* AT 238 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHESTERTOWN...OR ABOUT 24
  MILES EAST OF BALTIMORE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHESTERTOWN BY 255 PM EDT...
  CHURCH HILL AND 6 MILES WEST OF SUDLERSVILLE BY 315 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 3936 7607 3913 7620 3904 7591 3917 7576

$$

WN

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.