Alert archive / Delaware / Special Weather Statements in 2019
Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 22, 2019, 11:10 PM EDT for Kent County, Delaware. It was in force for 50 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 22, 2019, 11:10 PM EDT (03:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2019, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
County Kent County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 511 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted.
796
WWUS81 KPHI 230310
SPSPHI
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
1110 PM EDT Thu Aug 22 2019
DEZ002-MDZ012-015-230400-
Kent-Queen Anne's-Kent-
1110 PM EDT Thu Aug 22 2019
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN KENT...NORTHEASTERN
QUEEN ANNE'S AND EAST CENTRAL KENT COUNTIES...
At 1110 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Hartly, or 13
miles west of Dover, moving east at 30 mph.
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Dover, Smyrna, Clayton, Cheswold, Millington, Hartly, Dover Speedway,
Woodland Beach, Kenton, Little Creek and Leipsic.
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
LAT...LON 3930 7569 3929 7565 3931 7558 3934 7555
3936 7550 3933 7550 3934 7549 3931 7543
3925 7540 3920 7540 3916 7541 3916 7583
3925 7585
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 263DEG 25KT 3921 7576
$$
StaarmannThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 8:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PHI | Hunterdon, Warren | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 8:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset | 48 min |
| Aug 22, 10:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 62 min | |
| Aug 22, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland | 65 min |
| Aug 22, 11:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 92 min | |
| Aug 22, 11:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 54 min | |
| Aug 22, 11:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Atlantic | 36 min |
| Aug 23, 12:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Ocean | 47 min |
| Aug 22, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | New Castle | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent | 54 min |
| Aug 22, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 64 min |
| Aug 22, 8:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Cecil | 64 min |
| Aug 22, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PHI | Kent, Queen Anne's | 54 min |
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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.