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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

August 4, 2020Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Aug 4, 2020, 8:03 PM EDT for Caroline County, Talbot County, Maryland. It was in force for 42 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 4, 2020, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2020, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

Counties Caroline County, MD, Talbot County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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

Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 00:00Z on 2020-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 272 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 00:00Z on 2020-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1064 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted.

054 
WWUS81 KPHI 050003
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
803 PM EDT Tue Aug 4 2020

DEZ002-003-MDZ015-019-020-050045-
Inland Sussex-Kent-Queen Anne's-Talbot-Caroline-
803 PM EDT Tue Aug 4 2020

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN SUSSEX...
SOUTHWESTERN KENT...TALBOT...SOUTH CENTRAL QUEEN ANNE'S AND CAROLINE
COUNTIES...

At 803 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Cordova, or
near Easton, moving east at 25 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Easton, Seaford, Denton, Harrington, Federalsburg, Bridgeville,
Greensboro, Oakland, Ridgely, Trappe, St. Michaels, Preston, Oxford,
Queen Anne, Smithville, Starr, Copperville, Jumptown, Agner and
Choptank.

LAT...LON 3881 7622 3879 7622 3879 7619 3893 7621
      3899 7618 3899 7552 3864 7554 3865 7572
      3869 7577 3868 7580 3871 7584 3866 7596
      3867 7618 3869 7619 3867 7620 3871 7622
      3871 7623
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 260DEG 21KT 3883 7601 

$$

NC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 9:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWarren39 min
Aug 4, 10:04 PM EDTCoastal Flood StatementPHIOcean8 hr
Aug 4, 11:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningPHI64 min
Aug 4, 8:22 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHICarbon9 hr
Aug 4, 10:10 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningPHILehigh11 hr
Aug 4, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, Sussex39 min
Aug 4, 9:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent30 min
Aug 4, 10:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHINew Castle50 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.