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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 115, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 28, 2007Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2007, 3:35 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 40 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 28, 2007, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2007, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
40 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), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 28, 4:00 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMagnolia, DEA COUPLE OF TREES DOWN.

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 28, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 52 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 253 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2007-06-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
253 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 281935
SVRPHI
DEC001-282015-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0115.070628T1935Z-070628T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
335 PM EDT THU JUN 28 2007

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 415 PM EDT

* AT 331 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
  HARTLY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF DOVER...AND MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHESWOLD BY 340 PM EDT...
  DOVER...CAMDEN AND 7 MILES NORTH OF WOODSIDE BY 345 PM EDT...
  RISING SUN BY 350 PM EDT...
  7 MILES NORTH OF BOWERS BY 400 PM EDT...

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 3927 7577 3909 7579 3898 7534 3930 7542

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex84 min
Jun 27, 9:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle65 min
Jun 28, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINew Castle56 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.