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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 26, 2014Sussex County, Delaware

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 00:00Z on 2014-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1145 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2014-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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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: HEAVENER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren4 hr
Jun 25, 11:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISalem76 min
Jun 26, 12:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICape May, Cumberland50 min
Jun 26, 12:15 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI60 min
Jun 26, 1:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIAtlantic59 min
Jun 25, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Lehigh, Northampton50 min
Jun 25, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks60 min
Jun 25, 8:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks46 min
Jun 25, 9:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBerks48 min
Jun 25, 10:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia3 hr
Jun 25, 10:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot63 min
Jun 25, 10:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot61 min
Jun 25, 11:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline65 min
Jun 26, 12:53 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICaroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot3 hr

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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.