Alert archive / Maryland / Special Weather Statements in 2014
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Oct 7, 2014, 11:53 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2014, 11:53 PM EDT (03:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2014, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Caroline County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 12:00 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Preston, MD | WIRES AND TREE LIMBS DOWN |
| Oct 8, 12:00 AM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Preston, MD | SEVERAL TREES DOWN....DAMAGE TO FENCES AND SOFFITS AND HEAT PUMPS BLOWN OVER IN THE MAIN STREET...HUGHLETT ROAD...TIDEWATER CIRCLE AND WILLIAMSON STREET AREA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1222 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
219
WWUS81 KPHI 080353
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1153 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2014
DEZ002-003-MDZ019-020-080500-
CAROLINE MD-INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT DE-TALBOT MD-
1153 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2014
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SUSSEX...
SOUTHEASTERN TALBOT...SOUTHERN CAROLINE AND SOUTHERN KENT COUNTIES...
AT 1147 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM
HARMONY TO TANYARD TO TRAPPE TO CAMBRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH 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.
VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL FROM THESE STORMS...AND WILL CAUSE WATER TO
POND ON ROADS AND FILL POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. THE RAIN CAN CAUSE RAPID
RISES ON SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR PRESTON...CHOPTANK...AND CHOPTANK AROUND
MIDNIGHT...ANDREWSVILLE...ANDREWSVILLE...SMITHVILLE...AND SMITHVILLE
AROUND 1210 AM...FARMINGTON...AND FEDERALSBURG AROUND 1220 AM AND
HOUSTON AROUND 1230 AM.
LAT...LON 3860 7613 3874 7605 3883 7590 3898 7538
3899 7530 3893 7530 3893 7532 3886 7523
3871 7531 3862 7569 3868 7576 3867 7579
3869 7581 3870 7586 3866 7595 3860 7598
3857 7602
$$
FORECASTER: HEAVENERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Oct 8, 1:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic, Ocean | 40 min |
| Oct 8, 1:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 63 min | |
| Oct 8, 1:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 29 min | |
| Oct 8, 1:35 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Ocean | 25 min |
| Oct 7, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 45 min |
| Oct 7, 9:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline | 42 min |
| Oct 7, 11:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 63 min |
| Oct 8, 12:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 31 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.