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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 9, 2011Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 9, 2011, 9:59 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 31 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
Jun 9, 2011, 9:59 PM EDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2011, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Kent County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 2011-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1702 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 2011-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 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
1702 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-9 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.

655 
WWUS81 KPHI 100159
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
959 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

DEZ002-100230-
KENT DE-
959 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2011

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT KENT COUNTY...

AT 955 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF DOVER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR DOVER AROUND 1005 PM AND LITTLE CREEK
AROUND 1010 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

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

LAT...LON 3926 7571 3930 7543 3924 7538 3918 7539
      3915 7540 3914 7539 3909 7540 3908 7569

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Salem65 min
Jun 9, 10:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI40 min
Jun 9, 10:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Gloucester, Salem47 min
Jun 9, 10:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem58 min
Jun 9, 10:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI83 min
Jun 9, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean46 min
Jun 9, 11:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI96 min
Jun 10, 6:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland61 min
Jun 10, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland53 min
Jun 9, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil, Kent, Queen Anne's60 min
Jun 9, 11:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIQueen Anne's61 min
Jun 9, 11:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Queen Anne's, Talbot59 min
Jun 10, 12:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot59 min
Jun 10, 1:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot119 min
Jun 9, 9:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent64 min
Jun 10, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex63 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011

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.