Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 5:42 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 33 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
- Oct 4, 2000, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berks County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1287 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 042143 SVRPHL PAC011-042215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 542 PM EDT WED OCT 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 535 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 18 MILES WEST OF STRAUSSTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STRAUSSTOWN...WOMELSDORF AT 555 PM. BERNVILLE AT 600 PM. LEESPORT...WERNERSVILLE AT 605 PM. READING AT 610 PM. BIRDSBORO AT 615 PM. HAIL THE SIZE OF GOLFBALLS OR LARGER...AND WINDS GREATER THAN 65 MILES AN HOUR...ARE POSSIBLE FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY! FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4061 7659 4025 7603 4022 7580 4040 7563 RNS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 36 min |
| Oct 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 41 min |
| Oct 4, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 35 min |
| Oct 4, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 53 min |
| Oct 4, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 56 min |
| Oct 4, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 33 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.