Alert archive / Delaware / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 11, 2007New Castle County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2007, 3:06 PM EDT for New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 22 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 11, 2007, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 2007, 3:28 PM EDT
In force
22 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), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 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 11, 3:17 PM EDTHAIL 0.25Townsend, DEPEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN TOWNSEND.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 40 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 2007-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 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 2007-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
674 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 111906
SVRPHI
DEC003-111945-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0052.070611T1906Z-070611T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
306 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN NORTHERN DELAWARE...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 303 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
  MIDDLETOWN...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF NEWARK...AND MOVING SOUTH
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TOWNSEND BY 320 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 3954 7555 3953 7578 3930 7576 3934 7557
      3946 7560

$$

JRP
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KPHI 111928
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
327 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2007

DEC003-111937-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-070611T1945Z/
NEW CASTLE DE-
327 PM EDT MON JUN 11 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM WEAKENED AS IT MOVED SOUTHWARD THROUGH SOUTHERN NEW 
CASTLE COUNTY...BUT IT STILL COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS TO 
NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR...SMALL HAIL...AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN 
BETWEEN 1 AND 1 1/2 INCHES AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE SOUTH AT 15 MILES  
AN HOUR. 

LAT...LON 3954 7555 3953 7578 3930 7576 3934 7557
      3946 7560

$$

JRP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex36 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.