Alert archive / Delaware / Special Weather Statements in 2014
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 6, 2014, 9:13 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
- Sep 6, 2014, 9:13 PM EDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 2014, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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, 1.2 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
- 1728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KPHI 070113
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
913 PM EDT SAT SEP 6 2014
DEZ003-004-070215-
DELAWARE BEACHES DE-INLAND SUSSEX DE-
913 PM EDT SAT SEP 6 2014
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 908 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
ELLENDALE TO MARDELA SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. DO
NOT STAY IN THE OPEN NOR SEEK SHELTER UNDER TREES WHEN LIGHTNING
THREATENS...MOVE INDOORS WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR LAUREL AROUND 920 PM...MILTON AROUND 930
PM...LEWES AROUND 1000 PM...REHOBOTH BEACH AROUND 1010 PM AND
SELBYVILLE AROUND 1020 PM.
LAT...LON 3845 7567 3846 7570 3858 7571 3890 7547
3887 7524 3880 7516 3879 7511 3881 7510
3880 7508 3866 7505 3866 7506 3851 7504
3844 7509 3845 7552
$$
FORECASTER: SFJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Sep 6, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 64 min |
| Sep 6, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Morris, Somerset, Warren | 42 min |
| Sep 6, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Burlington, Mercer | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 9:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 66 min | |
| Sep 6, 9:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 55 min |
| Sep 6, 10:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 24 min |
| Sep 6, 11:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 30 min |
| Sep 7, 3:35 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 4 days | |
| Sep 6, 8:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton | 63 min |
| Sep 6, 9:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 67 min |
| Sep 6, 10:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Kent, Sussex | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.