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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 2:38 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 22 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 9, 2016, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted.
463 WWUS81 KPHI 091838 SPSPHI SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 238 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 DEZ003-004-091900- DELAWARE BEACHES-INLAND SUSSEX- 238 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SUSSEX COUNTY... AT 236 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR GEORGETOWN...MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... GEORGETOWN...LEWES...MILTON AND ELLENDALE. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS SLOW-MOVING STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 2 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. 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. 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 3879 7553 3886 7546 3876 7510 3861 7527 TIME...MOT...LOC 1836Z 292DEG 6KT 3873 7537 $$ JRK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 67 min | |
| Jul 9, 4:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Gloucester, Salem | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Salem | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cumberland, Salem | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 57 min | |
| Jul 9, 6:43 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 53 min | |
| Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 12:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 12:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 31 min |
| Jul 9, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 48 min |
| Jul 9, 2:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 57 min |
| Jul 9, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 62 min |
| Jul 9, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | New Castle | 29 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.