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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 24, 2016Wicomico County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 24, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT for Wicomico County, Maryland. It was in force for 24 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 24, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2016, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Wicomico County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 924 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

004 
WWUS81 KPHI 241821
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
221 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016
 
DEZ003-241845-
INLAND SUSSEX-
221 PM EDT FRI JUN 24 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN SUSSEX COUNTY...

AT 221 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR DELMAR...OR 9 MILES
NORTH OF SALISBURY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAUREL...DELMAR...GUMBORO AND BETHEL. 

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3846 7569 3859 7571 3847 7531 3845 7531
TIME...MOT...LOC 1821Z 275DEG 15KT 3850 7561 
$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 8:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Salem	4 hr
Jun 24, 12:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland	4 hr
Jun 24, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	27 min
Jun 24, 12:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem	4 hr
Jun 24, 1:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	29 min
Jun 24, 1:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Cumberland	4 hr
Jun 24, 2:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	4 hr
Jun 24, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	44 min
Jun 24, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	44 min
Jun 24, 3:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Camden, Gloucester	4 hr
Jun 24, 3:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cape May, Cumberland	3 hr
Jun 24, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		63 min
Jun 24, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	24 min
Jun 24, 11:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Kent	4 hr
Jun 24, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	30 min
Jun 24, 1:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	28 min
Jun 24, 1:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	4 hr
Jun 24, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	41 min
Jun 24, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	23 min
Jun 24, 2:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	42 min
Jun 24, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Wicomico	30 min
Jun 24, 3:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cecil	3 hr
Jun 24, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	50 min
Jun 24, 2:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex	3 hr
Jun 24, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	50 min
Jun 24, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	46 min
Jun 24, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	50 min
Jun 24, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.