Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2006, 2:48 PM EDT for New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 30 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
- Jun 23, 2006, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2006, 3:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County New Castle County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1107 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 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 231848 SVRPHI DEC003-231930- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0089.060623T1848Z-060623T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 248 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN NORTHERN DELAWARE THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...WILMINGTON...NEWARK * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STANTON...OR ABOUT NEAR NEWARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STANTON BY 255 PM EDT... NEWPORT BY 300 PM EDT... WILMINGTON MANOR...NEW CASTLE AND ELSMERE BY 305 PM EDT... WILMINGTON BY 320 PM EDT... LAT...LON 3976 7579 3958 7578 3957 7558 3981 7550 $$ JJM/MPD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KPHI 231918 SVSPHI SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 317 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 DEC003-231927- /O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0089.000000T0000Z-060623T1930Z/ NEW CASTLE DE- 317 PM EDT FRI JUN 23 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORM WAS WEAKENING AND WAS MOVING OUT OF THE COUNTY AT 315 PM EDT. LAT...LON 3976 7579 3958 7578 3957 7558 3981 7550 $$ JJM/MPD
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.