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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 12, 2014, 2:07 AM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland; Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 53 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
- Jun 12, 2014, 2:07 AM EDT (06:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2014, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -222 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
723
WWUS81 KPHI 120607
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
207 AM EDT THU JUN 12 2014
DEZ001>003-MDZ015-020-120700-
CAROLINE MD-INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT DE-NEW CASTLE DE-QUEEN ANNE'S MD-
207 AM EDT THU JUN 12 2014
...SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
AFFECT CAROLINE...KENT... NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S...NORTHWESTERN
SUSSEX AND SOUTHWESTERN NEW CASTLE COUNTIES...
AT 202 AM EDT...A CLUSTER OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS
AND HEAVY RAINFALL WAS NEAR GREENSBORO...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE SHOWERS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER
TO POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN CAN CAUSE
RAPID RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.
OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS SHOWER.
DO NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING
THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
THIS SHOWER WILL BE NEAR GOLDSBORO AROUND 215 AM...SANDTOWN...
SANDTOWN...HENDERSON...AND FELTON AROUND 220 AM...VIOLA...AND
RIVERVIEW AROUND 225 AM...MARYDEL...TEMPLEVILLE AND WOODSIDE AROUND
230 AM.
LAT...LON 3882 7590 3884 7593 3924 7580 3925 7576
3936 7576 3942 7575 3931 7543 3924 7539
3921 7539 3872 7567
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 3:56 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester | 20 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:30 PM EDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Chester | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 66 min |
| Jun 12, 1:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 12:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Talbot | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 4 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2014Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2014Every special weather statement in 2014
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.