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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

April 8, 2020Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Apr 8, 2020, 12:09 AM EDT for Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It was in force for 51 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: Apr 8, 2020, 12:09 AM EDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 2020, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

705 
WWUS81 KPHI 080409
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
1209 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020

DEZ002-MDZ012-015-020-080500-
Kent-Queen Anne's-Kent-Caroline-
1209 AM EDT Wed Apr 8 2020

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT WESTERN KENT...QUEEN
ANNE'S...NORTHEASTERN CAROLINE AND KENT COUNTIES...

At 1209 AM EDT, strong thunderstorms were clustered over Langford, or
10 miles northwest of Centerville, moving east at 40 mph.

Half inch hail is possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Dover, Centerville, Chestertown, Centreville, Greensboro, Oakland,
Ridgely, Cheswold, Rock Hall, Church Hill, Millington, Sudlersville,
Goldsboro, Hartly, Old Town, Newtown, Hazlettville, Morgnec, Crumpton
and Sandtown.

LAT...LON 3928 7620 3929 7617 3930 7618 3932 7618
      3934 7616 3933 7614 3935 7613 3922 7552
      3887 7567 3908 7623 3913 7625
TIME...MOT...LOC 0409Z 277DEG 35KT 3917 7616 

$$

NC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 9:30 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 4 more	33 hr
Apr 8, 2:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Camden, Gloucester	30 min
Apr 8, 2:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Camden	25 min
Apr 8, 2:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon	35 min
Apr 8, 2:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	24 min
Apr 8, 2:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington	32 min
Apr 8, 3:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex	32 min
Apr 8, 3:25 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Burlington, Ocean	35 min
Apr 8, 3:50 AM EDT	Gale Watch	PHI		24 hr
Apr 8, 4:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	39 min
Apr 8, 4:52 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		83 min
Apr 8, 4:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland	64 min
Apr 8, 3:24 PM EDT	Gale Warning	PHI		58 hr
Apr 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	PHI	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 10 more	24 hr
Apr 8, 1:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	37 min
Apr 8, 1:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Chester, Delaware	50 min
Apr 8, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Berks	46 min
Apr 7, 11:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	35 min
Apr 7, 11:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Sussex	27 min
Apr 8, 12:53 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	52 min
Apr 8, 1:06 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	New Castle	39 min
Apr 7, 11:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	39 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Maryland, 2020 Every special weather statement 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.