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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 8, 2021Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2021, 4:06 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 24 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 8, 2021, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2021, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Caroline County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

703 
WWUS81 KPHI 082006
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
406 PM EDT Sat May 8 2021

DEZ003-MDZ015-019-020-082030-
Inland Sussex-Queen Anne's-Talbot-Caroline-
406 PM EDT Sat May 8 2021

...A SHOWER WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL SUSSEX...EASTERN TALBOT...SOUTH
CENTRAL QUEEN ANNE'S AND CAROLINE COUNTIES...

At 406 PM EDT, a shower was located over Matthews, or near Easton,
moving southeast at 30 mph.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
shower.

Locations impacted include...
Easton, Seaford, Denton, Federalsburg, Bridgeville, Oakland, Ridgely,
Preston, Queen Anne, Smithville, Starr, Jumptown, Agner, Choptank,
Windyhill, Tanyard, Harmony, Skipton, Matthews and Wye Mills.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

LAT...LON 3890 7619 3907 7599 3888 7572 3883 7572
      3883 7566 3870 7547 3864 7571 3869 7577
      3868 7580 3870 7580 3871 7584 3870 7590
      3866 7596 3860 7599
TIME...MOT...LOC 2006Z 307DEG 24KT 3884 7598 

$$

SFJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 11:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	38 min
May 8, 1:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Monmouth	33 min
May 8, 1:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth	58 min
May 8, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	15 min
May 8, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Ocean	14 min
May 8, 2:34 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	PHI		7 hr
May 8, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris	48 min
May 8, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		31 min
May 8, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	26 min
May 8, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Salem	37 min
May 8, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 8, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Somerset	29 min
May 8, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		56 min
May 8, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		48 min
May 8, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Cumberland	29 min
May 8, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Middlesex, Somerset	24 min
May 8, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		62 min
May 8, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset	29 min
May 8, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	PHI		53 min
May 8, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	36 min
May 8, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	36 min
May 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	30 min
May 8, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Sussex	27 min
May 8, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Kent	34 min
May 8, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Queen Anne's	24 min
May 8, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	25 min
May 8, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	28 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.