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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 29, 2012Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 10:55 PM EDT for Caroline County, Talbot 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 29, 2012, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 113 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 2012-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 428 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 2012-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1098 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
58 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.

539 
WWUS81 KPHI 300255
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1055 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012

MDZ019-020-300400-
CAROLINE MD-TALBOT MD-
1055 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAROLINE AND TALBOT COUNTIES...

AT 1050 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR TALBOT AROUND 1100 PM...ST.
MICHAELS AROUND 1105 PM...OXFORD...COPPERVILLE AROUND 1110 PM...
TRAPPE AROUND 1115 PM...HAMBLETON...EASTON AROUND 1120 PM...
TANYARD...WINDYHILL AND SKIPTON AROUND 1125 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES.

WIND GUSTS TO UP 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. CLOUD TO 
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN 
LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3872 7626 3872 7631 3866 7634 3867 7635
      3877 7640 3875 7635 3887 7626 3887 7625
      3884 7625 3881 7621 3889 7610 3891 7611
      3892 7596 3896 7594 3901 7576 3864 7571
      3870 7584 3867 7594 3858 7600 3858 7606

$$

FORECASTER: GORSE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more94 min
May 29, 9:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Cumberland85 min
May 29, 10:53 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI52 min
May 29, 11:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May, Cumberland60 min
May 29, 10:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent37 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.