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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 19, 2011Kent County, New Castle County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2011, 6:12 PM EDT for Kent County, New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 18 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: May 19, 2011, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 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-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: 143 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

559 
WUUS51 KPHI 192212
SVRPHI
DEC001-003-192315-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0061.110519T2212Z-110519T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
612 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE...
  SOUTHEASTERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY IN NORTHERN DELAWARE...

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 607 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF WOODLAND BEACH...OR 9 MILES
  EAST OF MIDDLETOWN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  CHAMBERSVILLE AND LEIPSIC

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR
WITH THESE STORMS AND CAUSE LOW-LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

&&

LAT...LON 3936 7562 3940 7557 3937 7550 3934 7547
      3934 7545 3932 7544 3922 7553
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 215DEG 12KT 3942 7554

$$

PO

1 follow-up statement

887 
WWUS51 KPHI 192230
SVSPHI

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
630 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

DEC001-003-192240-
/O.CAN.KPHI.SV.W.0061.000000T0000Z-110519T2315Z/
KENT DE-NEW CASTLE DE-
630 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW CASTLE AND
NORTH CENTRAL KENT COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

LAT...LON 3936 7562 3940 7557 3937 7550 3934 7547
      3934 7545 3932 7544 3922 7553
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 215DEG 12KT 3947 7550

$$

PO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	60 min
May 19, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent, New Castle	6 hr
May 19, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	46 min
May 19, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	56 min
May 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	New Castle	3 hr
May 19, 3:52 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	PHI	Kent, New Castle, Sussex	8 hr
May 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	34 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	62 min
May 19, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	29 min
May 19, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	53 min
May 19, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	30 min
May 19, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	67 min

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.