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Special Weather Statement, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 10, 2021Caroline County, Maryland

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT for Caroline County, Maryland. It was in force for 45 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
Jun 10, 2021, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2021, 2:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

County Caroline County, MD

The radar

The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 408 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 12:00Z on 2021-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
408 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

619 
WWUS81 KPHI 101800
SPSPHI

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
200 PM EDT Thu Jun 10 2021

DEZ002-003-MDZ015-019-020-101845-
Inland Sussex-Kent-Queen Anne's-Talbot-Caroline-
200 PM EDT Thu Jun 10 2021

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN SUSSEX...
SOUTHWESTERN KENT...NORTHEASTERN TALBOT...SOUTHEASTERN QUEEN ANNE'S
AND SOUTHERN CAROLINE COUNTIES...

At 200 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were clustered near Andrewsville,
or 17 miles northeast of Hurlock, moving northeast at 20 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Seaford, Denton, Laurel, Federalsburg, Bridgeville, Delmar, Preston,
Queen Anne, Harmony, Smithville, Gumboro, Agner, Matthews, Choptank,
Sycamore, Griffin, Andrewsville, Cordova, Blades and Greenwood.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 3846 7569 3865 7571 3869 7577 3868 7580
      3870 7580 3871 7584 3870 7590 3868 7593
      3868 7595 3899 7600 3889 7579 3900 7567
      3845 7533
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 211DEG 18KT 3884 7572 

$$

Davis

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester39 min
Jun 9, 8:43 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHIChester2 hr
Jun 10, 3:29 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHISussex3 hr
Jun 10, 12:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHICaroline46 min
Jun 10, 1:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIKent, Queen Anne's57 min
Jun 10, 2:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPHICaroline, Kent, Queen Anne's3 hr
Jun 10, 3:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPHIWicomico31 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.