Alert archive / Delaware / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2016, 4:39 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 51 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 13, 2016, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 361 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
060
WWUS81 KPHI 132039
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
439 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016
DEZ003-132130-
INLAND SUSSEX-
439 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 438 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER SHARPTOWN...OR 12
MILES SOUTHEAST OF HURLOCK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GEORGETOWN...SEAFORD...MILLSBORO...LAUREL...SELBYVILLE...DELMAR...
DAGSBORO...MILLVILLE...SYCAMORE...GUMBORO...LONG NECK...BLADES...
FRANKFORD AND BETHEL.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
LAT...LON 3846 7569 3869 7571 3872 7514 3862 7513
3862 7515 3859 7518 3859 7521 3858 7518
3857 7518 3859 7514 3859 7513 3845 7511
TIME...MOT...LOC 2038Z 225DEG 13KT 3854 7567
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:44 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PHI | Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Mercer | 52 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:44 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 6 more | 29 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Caroline, Talbot | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Caroline | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 27 min |
| Jul 13, 5:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Sussex | 58 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.