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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 8, 2021Sussex County, Delaware

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at May 8, 2021, 4:33 PM EDT for Sussex County, Delaware. It was in force for 27 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, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Sussex County, DE

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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.

587 
WWUS81 KPHI 082033
SPSPHI

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

DEZ002-003-MDZ020-082100-
Inland Sussex-Kent-Caroline-
433 PM EDT Sat May 8 2021

...A SHOWER WILL AFFECT WESTERN SUSSEX...SOUTHWESTERN KENT AND
SOUTHEASTERN CAROLINE COUNTIES...

At 433 PM EDT, a shower was located over Smithville, or 12 miles
northeast of Hurlock, moving east at 35 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Georgetown, Seaford, Laurel, Federalsburg, Milton, Bridgeville,
Delmar, Ellendale, Smithville, Agner, Sycamore, Andrewsville, Blades,
Greenwood, Bethel and Farmington.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

LAT...LON 3858 7571 3865 7571 3869 7577 3868 7578
      3868 7580 3870 7580 3870 7584 3894 7576
      3881 7530 3845 7552 3845 7558
TIME...MOT...LOC 2033Z 286DEG 32KT 3877 7573 

$$

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, 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, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	24 min
May 8, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	PHI	Caroline	28 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.