Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 6:22 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newtown, PA |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPHL 222216 SVRPHL PAC017-222245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ 615 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN PENNSYLVANIA ...SOUTHERN BUCKS COUNTY AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO LOWER BUCKS COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SEVEREAL THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. ALSO...MANY REPORTS OF FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THE TOWNS OF YARDLEY...MORRISVILLE ...AND LEVITTOWN PA ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. PREPARE FOR STRONG DAMAGING WINDS... LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SHOULD THE STORM APPROACH MOVE INSIDE QUICKLY.x DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DI/JRP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 51 min |
| Jun 22, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 7:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Monroe | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.