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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 22, 2014Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 22, 2014, 4:53 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 22 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: May 22, 2014, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Kent County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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
May 22, 4:54 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Hazlettville, DE	NUMEROUS DOWNED POLES
May 22, 5:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Camden, DE	MOBILE HOMES DAMAGED

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 22, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 413 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -101 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1075 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

502 
WFUS51 KPHI 222053
TORPHI
DEC001-222115-
/O.NEW.KPHI.TO.W.0002.140522T2053Z-140522T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
453 PM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL KENT COUNTY IN CENTRAL DELAWARE...

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 450 PM EDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED IN HARTLY.
  THE STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE A TORNADO. IT IS
  NEAR HARTLY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAZLETTVILLE AROUND 500 PM EDT...
  DOVER AND DOVER SPEEDWAY AROUND 505 PM EDT...
  WOODSIDE AND CAMDEN AROUND 510 PM EDT...
  BOWERS AROUND 515 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT...OR ABANDON YOUR
VEHICLE AND LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA.

TAKE COVER INSIDE NOW. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. MOVE
TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL OF A STURDY BUILDING. PUT AS
MANY WALLS BETWEEN YOU AND THE OUTSIDE AS YOU CAN. AVOID WINDOWS.
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR NORTHERN NEW JERSEY AND EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND SOUTHERN
NEW JERSEY.

&&

LAT...LON 3910 7575 3915 7575 3927 7565 3917 7539
      3914 7540 3910 7539 3906 7539 3904 7536
      3891 7549
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 306DEG 25KT 3916 7568

$$

TFG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	56 min
May 22, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	62 min
May 22, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	New Castle	53 min
May 22, 4:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Kent	31 min
May 22, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Sussex	64 min
May 22, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	62 min
May 22, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	32 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.