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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 27, 2012, 10:10 PM EDT for Caroline County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 65 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 27, 2012, 10:10 PM EDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2012, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Caroline County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
663
WWUS81 KPHI 280210
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1010 PM EDT SUN MAY 27 2012
MDZ015-019-020-280315-
CAROLINE MD-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-TALBOT MD-
1010 PM EDT SUN MAY 27 2012
...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CAROLINE...QUEEN
ANNE'S AND TALBOT COUNTIES...
AT 1007 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CENTERVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR GRASONVILLE...
QUEENSTOWN AROUND 1015 PM...WYE MILLS...SKIPTON AROUND 1030 PM...
HILLSBORO...QUEEN ANNE AROUND 1045 PM...DENTON...GRIFFIN AROUND 1100
PM...SMITHVILLE AND AGNER AROUND 1115 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS...AS IS SMALL
HAIL.
LAT...LON 3882 7632 3887 7625 3881 7621 3882 7620
3893 7623 3894 7624 3890 7625 3892 7628
3889 7627 3890 7632 3886 7632 3884 7638
3905 7631 3899 7627 3898 7622 3900 7618
3904 7620 3908 7617 3897 7574 3865 7571
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 9:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Passaic | 26 min |
| May 27, 8:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 56 min |
| May 27, 9:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 27, 9:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 54 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 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.