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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 1, 2016Queen Anne's County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2016, 6:35 PM EDT for Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 55 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: Jul 1, 2016, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Queen Anne's County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

999 
WWUS81 KPHI 012235
SPSPHI

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
635 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2016
 
MDZ012-015-019-020-012330-
CAROLINE-TALBOT-KENT-QUEEN ANNE'S-
635 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN KENT...
SOUTHWESTERN KENT...NORTHWESTERN TALBOT...QUEEN ANNE'S AND NORTHERN
CAROLINE COUNTIES...

AT 633 PM EDT...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM CRUMPTON TO ANNAPOLIS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10
MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CENTERVILLE...CHESTERTOWN...CENTREVILLE...ROMANCOKE...GREENSBORO...
OAKLAND...RIDGELY...ROCK HALL...CHURCH HILL...MILLINGTON...
SUDLERSVILLE...GOLDSBORO...QUEEN ANNE...OLD TOWN...STARR...HOPE...
GRASONVILLE...MORGNEC...JUMPTOWN AND STEVENSVILLE.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 1030 PM THIS
EVENING.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 3904 7631 3898 7628 3900 7617 3903 7624
      3920 7625 3932 7584 3896 7573 3886 7626
      3888 7620 3897 7625 3891 7624 3894 7628
      3889 7629 3896 7631 3891 7634 3883 7626
      3886 7633 3883 7629 3884 7637 3885 7637
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 324DEG 9KT 3924 7591 3896 7652 
$$

AMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 1:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Cape May	4 hr
Jul 1, 2:25 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		65 min
Jul 1, 11:55 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		2 hr
Jul 1, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex	27 min
Jul 1, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth	41 min
Jul 1, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monmouth	48 min
Jul 1, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	40 min
Jul 1, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	57 min
Jul 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Burlington	35 min
Jul 1, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	36 min
Jul 1, 4:36 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Monmouth	4 hr
Jul 1, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Morris	39 min
Jul 1, 4:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Cumberland	3 hr
Jul 1, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Cumberland	47 min
Jul 1, 5:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Cumberland	4 hr
Jul 1, 5:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	43 min
Jul 1, 5:37 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		2 hr
Jul 1, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Atlantic	38 min
Jul 1, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic	61 min
Jul 1, 6:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Cumberland, Ocean	4 hr
Jul 1, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	26 min
Jul 1, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
Jul 1, 6:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Sussex, Warren	4 hr
Jul 1, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Warren	27 min
Jul 1, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh, Northampton	66 min
Jul 1, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Lehigh	58 min
Jul 1, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	45 min
Jul 1, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cecil	50 min
Jul 1, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Kent, Queen Anne's	43 min
Jul 1, 6:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 1, 7:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Caroline, Talbot	4 hr
Jul 1, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	25 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.