Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 27, 2007Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2007, 9:06 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 84 min. 2 reports 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 27, 2007, 9:06 PM EDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2007, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
84 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), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 27, 9:52 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGBethel, DELARGE TREE DOWN ON MAIN STREET IN BETHEL
Jun 27, 10:17 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGLaurel, DETREE DOWN

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

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 72 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3328 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2007-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 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 280106
SVRPHI
DEC005-280230-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0104.070628T0106Z-070628T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
906 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 905 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 11
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAUREL...OR ABOUT 48 MILES SOUTH OF DOVER...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LAUREL AND 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SEAFORD BY 930 PM EDT...
  GEORGETOWN BY 1000 PM EDT...
  MILLSBORO BY 1005 PM EDT...
  LONG NECK 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.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3857 7583 3839 7573 3848 7506 3882 7520

$$
 
TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle65 min
Jun 28, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle56 min
Jun 28, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Delaware, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.