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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 1994Chester County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1994, 11:08 PM EDT for Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 1994, 11:08 PM EDT (03:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1994, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Whole counties

County Chester County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 280309
TORPHL
PAC029-280400-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1108 PM EDT WED JUL 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
 
   ...EASTERN CHESTER COUNTY
 
POLICE IN NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP IN EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN CHESTER COUNTY
REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHNORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD PASS CLOSE TO KENNETT SQUARE AND WEST CHESTER.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO...MOVE TO A BELOW GROUND SHELTER IF AVAILABLE.  OTHE&RWISE
GO TO A SMALL CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.
ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
 
IN ADDITION TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF STREAMS
AND ROADWAYS.
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 10:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	62 min
Jul 27, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	62 min
Jul 27, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	44 min
Jul 28, 12:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PHI	Montgomery	45 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.