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 25, 2012, 8:32 AM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 28 min. 3 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 25, 2012, 8:32 AM EDT (12:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:34 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 25, 9:00 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Millsboro, DE | TREE DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR. |
| Jun 25, 9:03 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Oak Orchard, DE | A FEW TREES KNOCKED DOWN INTO HOMES AND SHEDS ALONG BANKS ROAD AND CANAL DRIVE IN OAK ORCHARD |
| Jun 25, 9:05 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Long Neck, DE | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND A POLE BARN UNDER CONSTRUCTION COLLAPSED |
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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 72 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1274 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
038
WWUS81 KPHI 251232
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
832 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2012
DEZ003-251300-
INLAND SUSSEX DE-
832 AM EDT MON JUN 25 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 830 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES NORTH OF
SALISBURY TO 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALISBURY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR GUMBORO...SYCAMORE AROUND 845 AM...
MILLSBORO AND DAGSBORO AROUND 900 AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS
WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
LAT...LON 3846 7569 3860 7558 3868 7513 3867 7513
3866 7512 3864 7512 3844 7524
$$
FORECASTER:DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 12:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 95 min |
| Jun 25, 3:44 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 41 hr | |
| Jun 25, 7:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 7:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 7:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 7:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 47 min |
| Jun 25, 8:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 83 min | |
| Jun 25, 8:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Somerset | 108 min |
| Jun 25, 8:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 9:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 38 min | |
| Jun 25, 9:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 95 min | |
| Jun 25, 9:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 10:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 56 min | |
| Jun 25, 10:30 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory for Hazardous Seas | PHI | 7 hr | |
| Jun 25, 10:45 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Jun 25, 11:32 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 11:53 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 37 min |
| Jun 25, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 56 min |
| Jun 25, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Jun 25, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Jun 25, 2:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Jun 25, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Jun 25, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 49 min | |
| Jun 25, 3:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Jun 25, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 40 min | |
| Jun 25, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 65 min | |
| Jun 25, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex, Somerset | 44 min |
| Jun 25, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Monmouth | 66 min |
| Jun 25, 5:12 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 28 hr | |
| Jun 25, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 55 min |
| Jun 25, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 7:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Ocean | 75 min |
| Jun 25, 8:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 9:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 13 min |
| Jun 25, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 10:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 26 min |
| Jun 25, 1:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 29 min |
| Jun 25, 8:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Wicomico | 24 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.