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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Mar 9, 2012, 1:27 AM EST for Kent County, Delaware; 4 counties in Maryland. It was in force for 63 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
- Mar 9, 2012, 1:27 AM EST (06:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2012, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:27 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
765
WWUS81 KPHI 090627
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
127 AM EST FRI MAR 9 2012
DEZ002-MDZ012-015-019-020-090730-
CAROLINE MD-KENT DE-KENT MD-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-TALBOT MD-
127 AM EST FRI MAR 9 2012
...SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT KENT...TALBOT...
CAROLINE AND QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTIES...
AT 124 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MIDDLETOWN TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTERVILLE TO 30
MILES SOUTH OF BALTIMORE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE SHOWERS
WILL BE NEAR OLD TOWN...MASSEY...CRUMPTON AROUND 135 AM...OVERTON...
STEVENSVILLE...MILLINGTON AROUND 140 AM...STARKEY CORNER...CHESTER...
SUDLERSVILLE AND STEVENSVILLE SOUTH AROUND 145 AM.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS...ALONG WITH A
BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAINFALL.
LAT...LON 3872 7626 3867 7635 3877 7640 3887 7625
3881 7621 3882 7620 3894 7624 3884 7638
3904 7632 3900 7618 3917 7629 3936 7605
3938 7577 3930 7576 3929 7567 3935 7555
3924 7539 3900 7532 3889 7549 3861 7607
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 11:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 57 min |
| Mar 9, 12:01 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 59 min |
| Mar 9, 12:58 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 1:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 96 min | |
| Mar 9, 1:46 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 89 min | |
| Mar 9, 1:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean | 64 min |
| Mar 9, 11:52 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 24 hr | |
| Mar 9, 2:28 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 62 min |
| Mar 9, 12:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 40 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2012Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.