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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 22, 2012Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report 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 22, 2012, 2:09 PM EDT (18:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 2:30 PM EDTMARINE TSTM WIND 40Indian River Acres, DE35 KT WIND GUST AT INDIAN RIVER INLET

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

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 12:00Z on 2012-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1404 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2012-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
1404 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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.

313 
WWUS81 KPHI 221809
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
209 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012

DEZ003-004-221915-
DELAWARE BEACHES DE-INLAND SUSSEX DE-
209 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...

AT 207 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR OCEAN VIEW...BETHANY BEACH
AROUND 215 PM...DEWEY BEACH AND REHOBOTH BEACH AROUND 230 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

EXPECT SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING
FROM THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3871 7524 3874 7507 3867 7506 3867 7505
      3862 7505 3861 7504 3848 7504 3846 7525

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 10:12 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean33 min
Jun 22, 11:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean63 min
Jun 22, 12:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean60 min
Jun 22, 12:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean42 min
Jun 22, 12:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI84 min
Jun 22, 12:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI97 min
Jun 22, 12:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIOcean2 hr
Jun 22, 12:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean52 min
Jun 22, 12:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean61 min
Jun 22, 1:10 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIOcean6 hr
Jun 22, 1:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington83 min
Jun 22, 1:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
Jun 22, 1:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIOcean59 min
Jun 22, 1:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean56 min
Jun 22, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Monmouth, Ocean73 min
Jun 22, 2:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI56 min
Jun 22, 2:31 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean119 min
Jun 22, 2:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic56 min
Jun 22, 2:39 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI96 min
Jun 22, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Ocean63 min
Jun 22, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMonmouth59 min
Jun 22, 2:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI54 min
Jun 22, 3:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean59 min
Jun 22, 3:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI62 min
Jun 22, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI65 min
Jun 22, 3:43 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic2 hr
Jun 22, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex65 min
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington43 min
Jun 22, 4:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI85 min
Jun 22, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren66 min
Jun 22, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May, Cumberland44 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Ocean60 min
Jun 22, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI94 min
Jun 22, 4:27 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Ocean2 hr
Jun 22, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May56 min
Jun 22, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren45 min
Jun 22, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic, Ocean55 min
Jun 22, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Ocean59 min
Jun 22, 5:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI97 min
Jun 22, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset42 min
Jun 22, 5:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMercer57 min
Jun 22, 5:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI96 min
Jun 22, 6:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Ocean, Salem62 min
Jun 22, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer, Ocean, Salem119 min
Jun 22, 7:02 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester102 min
Jun 22, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Gloucester56 min
Jun 22, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISalem54 min
Jun 22, 7:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI60 min
Jun 22, 7:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHISalem93 min
Jun 22, 7:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHIBurlington, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth73 min
Jun 22, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICamden, Gloucester, Salem69 min
Jun 22, 2:42 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon63 min
Jun 22, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe54 min
Jun 22, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon, Monroe50 min
Jun 22, 1:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex29 min
Jun 22, 1:32 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex118 min
Jun 22, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex60 min
Jun 22, 3:30 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex2 hr
Jun 22, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex67 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent, Sussex61 min
Jun 22, 5:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex57 min
Jun 22, 5:53 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex50 min
Jun 22, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil62 min
Jun 22, 7:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent59 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.