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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 4:11 PM EDT for New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 34 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, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County New Castle County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1248 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
592
WWUS81 KPHI 092011
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
411 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
DEZ001-NJZ016-021-092045-
NEW CASTLE-SALEM-CUMBERLAND-
411 PM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL NEW CASTLE...
SOUTHWESTERN SALEM AND WESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 411 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR PORT PENN...OR NEAR
MIDDLETOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MIDDLETOWN...SALEM...ALLOWAY...QUINTON...SAINT GEORGES...HANCOCKS
BRIDGE...
HOPE CREEK...MOUNT PLEASANT...NEWPORT MEADOWS...PORT PENN AND ODESSA.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS ALSO 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 3956 7572 3956 7557 3950 7558 3951 7556
3949 7553 3956 7552 3955 7533 3937 7535
3940 7545 3944 7546 3946 7554 3949 7555
3949 7558 3946 7559 3942 7555 3947 7574
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 282DEG 13KT 3950 7563
$$
JRKThe 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, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 22 min |
| Jul 9, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 62 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.