Alert archive / Maryland / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Mar 9, 2012, 2:28 AM EST for Kent County, Delaware; Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 62 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, 2:28 AM EST (07:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2012, 3:30 AM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:31 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 1409 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 294 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
944
WWUS81 KPHI 090728
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
228 AM EST FRI MAR 9 2012
DEZ002-003-MDZ019-020-090830-
CAROLINE MD-INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT DE-TALBOT MD-
228 AM EST FRI MAR 9 2012
...SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT KENT...TALBOT...
CAROLINE AND SUSSEX COUNTIES...
AT 220 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SHOWERS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES
NORTHEAST OF DOVER TO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOVER TO 15 MILES WEST OF
EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR CORDOVA...
COPPERVILLE...ST. MICHAELS...HILLSBORO AROUND 230 AM...VIOLA...
MAGNOLIA...FELTON AROUND 235 AM...GRIFFIN...OXFORD AND DENTON AROUND
240 AM.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS...ALONG WITH A
BRIEF PERIOD OF HEAVY RAINFALL.
LAT...LON 3864 7571 3868 7576 3870 7584 3867 7594
3857 7604 3872 7626 3870 7635 3877 7640
3875 7635 3887 7626 3881 7621 3888 7610
3895 7609 3892 7596 3906 7580 3929 7542
3926 7539 3906 7539 3879 7516 3849 7569
$$
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, 1:27 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 63 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.