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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 25, 2017Kent County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2017, 7:13 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 32 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
May 25, 2017, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2017, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Kent County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2017-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 492 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Wallops Is Stn, VA at 12:00Z on 2017-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

As transmitted.

744 
WWUS81 KPHI 252313
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
713 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2017

DEZ002-003-MDZ020-252345-
Inland Sussex-Kent-Caroline-
713 PM EDT THU MAY 25 2017

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SUSSEX...SOUTHERN
KENT AND EAST CENTRAL CAROLINE COUNTIES...

At 713 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Andrewsville,
or 16 miles northwest of Georgetown, moving northeast at 30 mph.

Winds up to 50 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Dover, Milford, Harrington, Camden, Bowers, Woodside, Viola, Rising
Sun-Lebanon, Rising Sun, Dover Base Housing, Big Stone Beach,
Andrewsville, Felton, Greenwood, Frederica, Houston, Magnolia,
Farmington, Rodney Village and Kent Acres.

LAT...LON 3885 7578 3918 7549 3910 7540 3907 7541
      3901 7533 3898 7531 3895 7532 3894 7531
      3893 7532 3890 7529 3878 7560
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 230DEG 25KT 3885 7562 

$$

JRK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 5:12 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI63 min
May 25, 5:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICumberland30 min
May 25, 5:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICamden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem2 hr
May 25, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISalem24 min
May 25, 6:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIGloucester29 min
May 25, 7:37 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI38 min
May 25, 7:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI55 min
May 25, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICumberland, Salem49 min
May 25, 5:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIPhiladelphia33 min
May 25, 6:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIBucks36 min
May 25, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIQueen Anne's, Talbot42 min
May 25, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot49 min
May 25, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHICecil, Kent, Queen Anne's51 min
May 25, 6:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISussex27 min
May 25, 7:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHINew Castle26 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.