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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 19, 2011Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2011, 6:53 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 67 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, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2011, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:54 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1119 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 112 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.

910 
WWUS81 KPHI 192253
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
653 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

DEZ003-MDZ020-200000-
CAROLINE MD-INLAND SUSSEX DE-
653 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN CAROLINE AND SUSSEX 
COUNTIES...

AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BETHEL AROUND 710 PM...SEAFORD...
BLADES AROUND 715 PM...BRIDGEVILLE AROUND 725 PM...GREENWOOD AROUND
730 PM...SYCAMORE AROUND 735 PM AND GEORGETOWN AROUND 800 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3865 7572 3867 7576 3867 7580 3869 7583
      3870 7587 3891 7537 3862 7523 3856 7572

$$

PO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Morris	4 days
May 19, 3:35 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Essex, Morris, Passaic	4 days
May 19, 10:26 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Essex, Passaic	65 hr
May 19, 10:28 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	PHI	Passaic	11 hr
May 19, 2:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	56 min
May 19, 2:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	56 min
May 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Camden, Gloucester, Salem	3 hr
May 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	67 min
May 19, 3:34 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas	PHI		12 hr
May 19, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Warren	53 min
May 19, 3:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	5 hr
May 19, 3:52 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more	8 hr
May 19, 4:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	58 min
May 19, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester	54 min
May 19, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	55 min
May 19, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	59 min
May 19, 4:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Warren	4 hr
May 19, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	50 min
May 19, 5:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	54 min
May 19, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 19, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	47 min
May 19, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland, Salem	52 min
May 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester	56 min
May 19, 7:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Camden	55 min
May 19, 12:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	89 min
May 19, 1:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	5 hr
May 19, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	61 min
May 19, 2:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	41 min
May 19, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	3 hr
May 19, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon	60 min
May 19, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	55 min
May 19, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	63 min
May 19, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	60 min
May 19, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	57 min
May 19, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Bucks	62 min
May 19, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monroe	55 min
May 19, 7:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	PHI	Montgomery, Philadelphia	82 min
May 18, 9:10 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	11 hr
May 18, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	59 min
May 19, 12:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	94 min
May 19, 12:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	32 min
May 19, 12:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	66 min
May 19, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	60 min
May 19, 1:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	6 hr
May 19, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	51 min
May 19, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's	88 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cecil, Kent	62 min
May 19, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	46 min
May 19, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent	34 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, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, New Castle	18 min

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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.