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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2012, 7:10 PM EDT for New Castle County, Delaware. 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
- Jun 12, 2012, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2012, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County New Castle County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 122310
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
710 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012
DEZ001-MDZ008-NJZ016-130015-
CECIL MD-NEW CASTLE DE-SALEM NJ-
710 PM EDT TUE JUN 12 2012
...AN AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT NEW
CASTLE...CECIL AND SALEM COUNTIES...
AT 704 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN
AREA OF SHOWERS PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL 2 MILES SOUTH OF ELKTON...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SHOWERS WILL BE NEAR GLASGOW AROUND 715
PM...MOUNT PLEASANT...BROOKSIDE AROUND 720 PM...SAINT GEORGES...BEAR
AROUND 725 PM...SAINT GEORGES AROUND 730 PM...DELAWARE CITY...PORT
PENN...WILMINGTON MANOR AROUND 735 PM AND NEW CASTLE AROUND 740 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER
TO POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LAT...LON 3972 7555 3972 7552 3971 7551 3972 7550
3974 7538 3946 7537 3947 7555 3950 7556
3948 7558 3947 7559 3947 7591 3965 7591
$$
FORECASTER: MEOLAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:28 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 6 days | |
| Jun 12, 7:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:18 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Statement | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:23 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 8 hr |
Nearby
Special 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.