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Areal Flood Advisory 33, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 19, 2020Chester County, Pennsylvania; New Castle County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this areal flood advisory at Jun 19, 2020, 3:46 PM EDT for Chester County, Pennsylvania; New Castle County, Delaware. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 19, 2020, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2020, 7:45 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties New Castle County, DE, Chester County, PA

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2020-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 568 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2020-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
568 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Jun 19, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 18, 8:27 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryPHIAtlantic, Cape May, Monmouth, Ocean12 hr
Jun 19, 7:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHISomerset35 min
Jun 19, 7:56 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset3 hr
Jun 19, 2:40 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks4 hr
Jun 19, 4:34 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIChester3 hr
Jun 19, 5:21 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIBerks, Chester, Montgomery2 hr
Jun 19, 5:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHILehigh26 min
Jun 19, 6:46 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICarbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton3 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2020Areal Flood Advisories in Delaware, 2020Every areal flood advisory in 2020

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.