Alert archive / Maryland / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2012, 4:08 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 82 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, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 82 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Caroline County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.
812
WWUS81 KPHI 142008
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
408 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012
DEZ002-003-MDZ019-020-142130-
CAROLINE MD-INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT DE-TALBOT MD-
408 PM EDT SAT JUL 14 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAROLINE...KENT...SUSSEX AND
TALBOT COUNTIES...
AT 401 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EASTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR HARMONY AROUND 415 PM...
AGNER...FEDERALSBURG AROUND 430 PM...SMITHVILLE...DENTON AROUND 445
PM...BRIDGEVILLE AROUND 500 PM...FARMINGTON AND ANDREWSVILLE AROUND
515 PM.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND QUICKLY FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DOPPLER RADAR
STORM TOTAL ESTIMATES ARE SHOWING HALF AN INCH TO THREE QUARTERS OF
AN INCH OF RAIN IS FALLING FROM THIS PARTICULAR THUNDERSTORM.
WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER
UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A
THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
THERE ARE OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FARTHER TO THE WEST IN
TALBOT COUNTY AND IN THE MARYLAND WESTERN SHORE THAT MAY AFFECT THE
REGION LATER THIS AFTERNOON.
LAT...LON 3875 7604 3902 7560 3870 7538 3865 7572
3868 7576 3867 7580 3870 7581 3870 7584
3867 7594 3865 7595 3864 7597
$$
TFGThe 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, 9:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.