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Freeze Watch 1, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this freeze watch at Apr 7, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT for Kent County, Sussex County, Delaware. It took effect at Apr 8, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2025, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2025, 2:30 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Counties Kent County, DE, Sussex County, DE
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 310 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze watch went out at Apr 7, 2:12 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 2:12 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 2:37 PM EDT | Gale Warning | PHI | 31 hr |
Nearby
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.