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 Jul 8, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 8, 2012, 7:33 PM EDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2012, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 2344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 082333
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
733 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2012
DEZ003-004-MDZ019-090030-
DELAWARE BEACHES DE-INLAND SUSSEX DE-TALBOT MD-
733 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX AND TALBOT COUNTIES...
AT 728 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF EASTON TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALISBURY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25
MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR DELMAR...BETHEL AROUND 815 PM AND
DELMAR AROUND 830 PM.
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 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
LAT...LON 3845 7569 3848 7570 3863 7572 3868 7594
3853 7507 3844 7509
$$
HAYESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 44 min | |
| Jul 7, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 10:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 52 min |
| Jul 7, 11:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 56 min |
| Jul 7, 11:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 1:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 54 min |
| Jul 7, 8:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 60 min |
| Jul 7, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 59 min |
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.