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 Aug 14, 2016, 10:36 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 14, 2016, 10:36 PM EDT (02:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:35 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 3071 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1317 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
695
WWUS81 KPHI 150236
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1036 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
DEZ003-004-150300-
DELAWARE BEACHES-INLAND SUSSEX-
1036 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2016
...A LINE OF SHOWERS WILL AFFECT SUSSEX COUNTY...
AT 1035 PM EDT...A LINE OF SHOWERS WAS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
NEAR MILTON TO NEAR HEBRON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE SHOWERS. A GUST
FRONT WILL PRECEDE THESE SHOWERS...SO THE GUSTY WINDS COULD ARRIVE
WELL BEFORE ANY RAIN.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GEORGETOWN...MILLSBORO...LAUREL...LEWES...MILTON...DELMAR...
DAGSBORO...HENLOPEN ACRES...SYCAMORE...GUMBORO...
CAPE HENLOPEN STATE PARK...LONG NECK...FRANKFORD...
DEWEY BEACH AND BETHEL.
LAT...LON 3846 7569 3853 7570 3890 7529 3879 7516
3878 7512 3880 7509 3864 7506 3863 7507
3869 7508 3869 7514 3864 7513 3862 7509
3859 7521 3857 7518 3859 7512 3845 7528
TIME...MOT...LOC 0235Z 325DEG 13KT 3885 7526 3848 7567
$$
SFJThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer | 43 min |
| Aug 14, 9:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Mercer, Middlesex | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 9:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 87 min | |
| Aug 14, 9:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cumberland, Salem | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 10:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May, Cumberland | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 11:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cape May | 17 min |
| Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Hunterdon, Middlesex and 4 more | 29 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:56 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | PHI | 37 hr | |
| Aug 14, 8:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 44 min |
| Aug 14, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil, Kent | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 9:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's | 49 min |
| Aug 15, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Caroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 37 min |
| Aug 15, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent | 41 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.