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 Aug 15, 2016, 9:22 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 53 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 15, 2016, 9:22 PM EDT (01:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2016, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Caroline County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1534 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
269
WWUS81 KPHI 160122
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
922 PM EDT MON AUG 15 2016
DEZ002-003-MDZ020-160215-
KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-CAROLINE-
922 PM EDT MON AUG 15 2016
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN KENT...NORTHWESTERN
SUSSEX...EASTERN TALBOT AND SOUTHERN CAROLINE COUNTIES...
AT 921 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER PRESTON...OR 7 MILES
NORTH OF HURLOCK...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HARRINGTON...FEDERALSBURG...BRIDGEVILLE...PRESTON...CHOPTANK...
HARMONY...ANDREWSVILLE...TANYARD...AGNER...SMITHVILLE...
GREENWOOD AND FARMINGTON.
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.
LAT...LON 3869 7577 3868 7580 3870 7580 3871 7584
3870 7590 3868 7593 3868 7597 3876 7599
3881 7590 3883 7591 3897 7553 3868 7545
3866 7573
TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 259DEG 15KT 3873 7592
$$
POThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 67 min |
| Aug 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 5:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| Aug 16, 5:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 35 min |
| Aug 16, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 5:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 54 min |
| Aug 16, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Delaware | 29 min |
| Aug 15, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Talbot | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 10:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Queen Anne's | 61 min |
| Aug 16, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Cecil | 38 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.