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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 1, 2012Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 1, 2012, 7:50 PM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 55 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2012, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 1, 8:30 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 Ne Centreville, MD	TREES DOWN. GARAGE BLOWN OFF FOUNDATION.
Jun 1, 8:30 PM EDT	TORNADO	5 Ne Centreville, MD	MINOR DAMAGE TO SEVERAL HOMES. NUMEROUS TREES SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. RATED EF0.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 116 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -174 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

858 
WWUS81 KPHI 012350
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
750 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2012

MDZ012-015-019-020-020045-
CAROLINE MD-KENT MD-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-TALBOT MD-
750 PM EDT FRI JUN 1 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAROLINE...KENT...QUEEN ANNE'S
AND TALBOT COUNTIES...

AT 747 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF EASTON...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR STARR...WYE MILLS AROUND 800 PM...
CARVILLE...HOPE AROUND 815 PM...CHURCH HILL...STARKEY CORNER AROUND
830 PM...CRUMPTON AND MORGNEC AROUND 845 PM.

VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL ROADSIDE DITCHES AND SMALL STREAMS.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT INTENSE LIGHTNING FROM THIS STORM. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER
TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM
APPROACHES.

LAT...LON 3881 7621 3883 7620 3885 7621 3928 7614
      3923 7575 3921 7575 3878 7599

$$

HEAVENER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 6:20 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more	24 hr
Jun 1, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	PHI	Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 5 more	11 hr
Jun 1, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	59 min
Jun 1, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	44 min
Jun 1, 6:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks	6 hr
Jun 1, 6:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Talbot	56 min
Jun 1, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline, Queen Anne's	53 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2012 Every 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.