Alert archive / Delaware / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 22, 2012, 9:02 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 58 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 22, 2012, 9:02 PM EDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2012, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Kent County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:05 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1073 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
643
WWUS81 KPHI 230102
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
902 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012
DEZ002-230200-
KENT DE-
902 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT KENT COUNTY...
AT 900 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER KENT COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE
THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR WOODSIDE EAST...RIVERVIEW AROUND 900
PM...MAGNOLIA...RISING SUN AROUND 915 PM...BOWERS AND LITTLE CREEK
AROUND 930 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3893 7568 3912 7572 3923 7541 3919 7538
3918 7540 3907 7539 3900 7532 3898 7530
3895 7530 3895 7539 3892 7541 3891 7546
$$
NIERENBERGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 8:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Salem | 53 min |
| Jun 22, 8:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem | 70 min |
| Jun 22, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 8:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Jun 22, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Ocean and 1 more | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 9:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester | 2 hr |
| Jun 22, 9:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Monmouth, Ocean | 116 min |
| Jun 22, 9:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 9:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 63 min |
| Jun 22, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 85 min |
Nearby
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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.