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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2014, 2:21 AM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 54 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 26, 2014, 2:21 AM EDT (06:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2014, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 1145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 873 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
868
WWUS81 KPHI 260621
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
221 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2014
DEZ003-260715-
INLAND SUSSEX DE-
221 AM EDT THU JUN 26 2014
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WESTERN SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 218 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ELDORADO...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. DO
NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING
THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THIS STORM...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN CAN CAUSE RAPID
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.
THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR BETHEL AROUND 240 AM...BLADES AROUND 250
AM...SYCAMORE AROUND 310 AM AND GEORGETOWN AROUND 320 AM.
LAT...LON 3863 7571 3864 7572 3871 7571 3883 7534
3850 7527 3847 7570
$$
FORECASTER: HEAVENERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren | 4 hr |
| Jun 25, 11:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 76 min |
| Jun 26, 12:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 12:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 60 min | |
| Jun 26, 1:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 59 min |
| Jun 25, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 50 min |
| Jun 25, 8:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Bucks | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 10:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 3 hr |
| Jun 25, 10:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 61 min |
| Jun 25, 11:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 12:53 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 3 hr |
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.