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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 28, 2012Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 28, 2012, 9:28 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 62 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 28, 2012, 9:28 PM EDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2012, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 98 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1078 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2012-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1078 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1476 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-7 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

214 
WWUS81 KPHI 290128
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
928 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

DEZ003-004-290230-
DELAWARE BEACHES DE-INLAND SUSSEX DE-
928 PM EDT SAT JUL 28 2012

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...

AT 925 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 9 MILES NORTH OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING 
EAST AT 20 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR CAPE HENLOPEN STATE 
PARK AND LEWES AROUND 1000 PM.

WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LAT...LON 3873 7542 3889 7544 3890 7543 3892 7530
      3882 7519 3879 7515 3879 7511 3881 7510
      3880 7508 3873 7507 3871 7541

$$

HAYES

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:02 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Mercer2 hr
Jul 28, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon55 min
Jul 28, 8:11 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI64 min
Jul 28, 8:26 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMercer101 min
Jul 28, 8:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Somerset67 min
Jul 28, 8:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIGloucester, Salem64 min
Jul 28, 8:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI62 min
Jul 28, 9:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI61 min
Jul 28, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May23 min
Jul 28, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMercer, Middlesex, Monmouth66 min
Jul 28, 9:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
Jul 28, 9:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBurlington, Ocean59 min
Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIMiddlesex, Monmouth118 min
Jul 28, 9:52 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICamden53 min
Jul 28, 10:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI66 min
Jul 28, 10:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonmouth32 min
Jul 28, 10:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI59 min
Jul 28, 10:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIOcean66 min
Jul 29, 12:22 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI23 min
Jul 29, 1:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic55 min
Jul 29, 1:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICape May2 hr
Jul 29, 2:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICape May61 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic55 min
Jul 29, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset64 min
Jul 29, 5:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIMiddlesex52 min
Jul 28, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery56 min
Jul 28, 9:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks, Philadelphia64 min
Jul 29, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks, Lehigh57 min
Jul 29, 3:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks, Chester74 min
Jul 29, 5:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICarbon, Lehigh, Northampton58 min
Jul 29, 6:08 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICarbon86 min
Jul 28, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Sussex66 min
Jul 28, 8:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex54 min
Jul 28, 10:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex69 min
Jul 29, 2:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex52 min
Jul 29, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex60 min
Jul 28, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent67 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.