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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 9:39 AM EDT for Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 51 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 14, 2012, 9:39 AM EDT (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2012, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:42 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 650 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
169
WWUS81 KPHI 141339
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
939 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012
MDZ015-019-020-141430-
CAROLINE MD-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-TALBOT MD-
939 AM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012
...HEAVY SHOWERS AND ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT
CAROLINE...QUEEN ANNE'S AND TALBOT COUNTIES...
AT 936 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
HEAVY SHOWERS WITH AN EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF EASTON TO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF
EASTON TO 5 MILES WEST OF EASTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE
SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR EASTON AROUND 945
AM...CORDOVA AROUND 950 AM...HILLSBORO...QUEEN ANNE...JUMPTOWN
AROUND 955 AM...HAMBLETON...TANYARD...MATTHEWS AROUND 1000
AM...GRIFFIN AROUND 1005 AM AND WINDYHILL AROUND 1015 AM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. A NORTHWEST
WIND GUST OF 25 TO 30 MPH IS POSSIBLE AS WELL AS A FEW LIGHTNING
STRIKES.
LAT...LON 3876 7624 3882 7620 3903 7615 3902 7592
3889 7575 3867 7580 3870 7581 3870 7584
3867 7594 3865 7595 3864 7597
$$
FORECASTER:DRAGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 3:39 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 36 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 83 min |
| Jul 14, 8:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's, Talbot | 47 min |
| Jul 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 82 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.