Alert archive / Maryland / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 5, 2016, 12:08 AM EDT for Kent County, Maryland. It was in force for 52 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 5, 2016, 12:08 AM EDT (04:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Kent County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:10 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
765
WWUS81 KPHI 050408
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1208 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
MDZ008-012-015-050500-
CECIL-KENT-QUEEN ANNE'S-
1208 AM EDT TUE JUL 5 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN KENT...SOUTH CENTRAL
CECIL...NORTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S AND NORTHERN CAROLINE COUNTIES...
AT 1208 AM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR ROCK HALL...OR 9
MILES EAST OF MILLERS ISLAND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CHESTERTOWN...ROCK HALL...CHURCH HILL...CECILTON...MILLINGTON...
SUDLERSVILLE...BETTERTON...OLD TOWN...KENNEDYVILLE...NEWTOWN...
CRUMPTON...LANGFORD...MASSEY...STARKEY CORNER...MORGNEC...GALENA...
BARCLAY AND KINGSTOWN.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SHOWER IN A VERY SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR
VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
PEA SIZE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LAT...LON 3926 7622 3929 7617 3932 7618 3934 7616
3933 7614 3937 7611 3937 7606 3938 7605
3942 7582 3913 7579 3911 7624 3915 7628
3917 7628
TIME...MOT...LOC 0408Z 263DEG 38KT 3922 7624
$$
ROBERTSONThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 12:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 3:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 37 min |
| Jul 5, 3:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cumberland | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 3:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 13 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:55 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 13 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Montgomery | 51 min |
| Jul 5, 12:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 2:36 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's | 54 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.