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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Sep 19, 2016, 6:07 AM EDT for Caroline County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland; Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 38 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
- Sep 19, 2016, 6:07 AM EDT (10:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 2016, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Caroline County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 969 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
The text
As transmitted.
134
WWUS81 KPHI 191007
SPSPHI
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
607 AM EDT MON SEP 19 2016
DEZ001>003-MDZ012-015-019-020-NJZ021-191045-
KENT-INLAND SUSSEX-NEW CASTLE-CAROLINE-TALBOT-KENT-QUEEN
ANNE'S-CUMBERLAND-
607 AM EDT MON SEP 19 2016
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN NEW CASTLE...
KENT...WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX...NORTHERN KENT...NORTHEASTERN TALBOT...
QUEEN ANNE'S...CAROLINE AND SOUTHWESTERN CUMBERLAND COUNTIES...
AT 607 AM EDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER RIDGELY...OR
12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CENTERVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOVER...EASTON...CENTERVILLE...SMYRNA...CHESTERTOWN...DENTON...
CENTREVILLE...HARRINGTON...CAMDEN...CLAYTON...GREENSBORO...OAKLAND...
RIDGELY...CHESWOLD...CHURCH HILL...PRESTON...MILLINGTON...
SUDLERSVILLE...GOLDSBORO AND QUEEN ANNE.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.
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 3934 7610 3929 7543 3925 7540 3927 7522
3924 7540 3921 7540 3915 7541 3908 7540
3870 7577 3874 7612
TIME...MOT...LOC 1007Z 193DEG 22KT 3891 7589
$$
MPSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Warren | 45 min |
| Sep 19, 3:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Warren | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 51 min |
| Sep 19, 9:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 11:50 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Cape May | 3 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon | 45 min |
| Sep 19, 1:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 1:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 26 min |
| Sep 19, 1:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 40 min |
| Sep 19, 3:43 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Berks | 47 min |
| Sep 19, 4:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Berks, Chester, Montgomery | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 8:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 6:28 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 4 hr |
| Sep 19, 12:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot | 8 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2016Special Weather Statements in Delaware, 2016Every special weather statement in 2016
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.