Gusty northwest winds accompanied a band of snow showers and snow flurries as they moved through Delaware. Peak wind gusts were mainly between 30 and 50 mph.
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The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Gusty northwest winds accompanied a band of snow showers and snow flurries as they moved through Delaware. Peak wind gusts were mainly between 30 and 50 mph. The highest reported wind gusts were 51 mph in Lewes (Sussex County) and 44 mph at the Dover Air Force Base.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 10, 9:35 PM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 935 PM EST FRI JAN 10 2003 SML CRAFT GOING UP IN THE UPR DE BAY. ------------------------------------- PREVIOUSLY... UPDATED TO ACCOUNT FOR A FEW MORE CLOUDS AND SOME PERSISTENT FLURRIES. TWEAKED THE RDF TO MORE CLOSELY MATCH CURRENT CONDITIONS. OTHERWISE NO CHANGES. PREV AFD IS BELOW. MPD ***************************************************************** AND BEFORE THAT... CAA WILL CONTINUE THRU THE NIGHT. LOW LEVEL MOIST AND CYCLONIC FLOW WILL KEEP CHC SNSH OVER NW ZONES TONIGHT INTO SAT. AN ENFORCING SHOT OF ARCTIC AIR FOR SUNDAY WILL KEEP THE DEEP FREEZE GOING. TEMPS HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO THE MAV NUMBERS. MARINE...WILL KEEP THE SMALL CRAFT GOING ON COAST AND LOWER DEL BAY. FCSTID = 10 ZEV .PHI...SML CRAFT ADVY CST AND DE BAY.
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-101145- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 450 AM EST FRI JAN 10 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...DELAWARE...THE NORTHERN MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE...AND NEW JERSEY EXCLUDING THE FIVE NORTHEAST COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. KRUZDLO
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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