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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 4, 2000Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 6:24 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 2000, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Berks County, PA

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2000-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 2000-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

938 
WUUS51 KPHI 042224
SVRPHL
PAC011-042300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
624 PM EDT WED OCT 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT.

* AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 11 MILES WEST OF STRAUSSTOWN...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STRAUSSTOWN AT 635 PM.
  BERNVILLE AT 640 PM.
  LEESPORT AT 655 PM.

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND WINDS GREATER THAN 55 MILES AN
HOUR ARE EXPECTED 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 4048 7653 4037 7625 4039 7577 4054 7616

RNS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks33 min
Oct 4, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh41 min
Oct 4, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery35 min
Oct 4, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester53 min
Oct 4, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks56 min
Oct 4, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester33 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.