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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

November 8, 1996Monroe County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 1996, 3:49 PM EST for Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 46 min. 3 reports 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
Nov 8, 1996, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 1996, 4:35 PM EST
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 8, 3:50 PM ESTTornado F1Kunkletown, PA
Nov 8, 4:05 PM ESTThunderstorm WindExtreme Southwest, PA
Nov 8, 4:20 PM ESTThunderstorm WindEastern, 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 text

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

000 
TTAA00 KPHL 082050 RRA
TORPHL
PAC089-082135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ
349 PM EST FRI NOV 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PHILADELPHIA/MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS
ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 435 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN  PENNSYLVANIA

   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 347 PM EST...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY NWS DOPPLER RADAR
3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KUNKLETOWN MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS TORNADO MAY AFFECT THE FOLLOWING NEARBY AREAS... KUNKLETOWN...
KRESGEVILLE... GILBERT AND  BOSSARDSVILLE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER NOW.  AFTER THE
STORM HAS PASSED...REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OR FLOODING TO YOUR
LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR SEVERE WEATHER
REPORT ON TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN WINDS GREATER THAN 58 MILES AN HOUR...
DIME SIZE HAIL OR LARGER...VERY 0HEAVY RAINS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND
TORNADOES.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...THE VOICE OF THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE...OR TO COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE
LATEST STORM INFORMATION.

AMC/TFG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 3:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks62 min
Nov 8, 3:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh36 min
Nov 8, 4:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Chester64 min
Nov 8, 4:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh, Montgomery38 min
Nov 8, 4:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh35 min
Nov 8, 4:47 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHICarbon4 hr
Nov 8, 5:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHINorthampton50 min
Nov 8, 6:10 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIMonroe5 hr
Nov 8, 6:10 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningPHIBerks5 hr

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every tornado warning in 1996Tornadoes 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.