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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

October 4, 2000Chester County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 7:07 PM EDT for Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 53 min. 2 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
Oct 4, 2000, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area
Whole counties

County Chester County, PA

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 4, 8:00 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 ECoatesville, PA
Oct 4, 8:00 PM EDTHail 1Coatesville, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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°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.

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 042309
SVRPHL
PAC029-050000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 703 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY.
  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  PHOENIXVILLE...
  LIONVILLE...

NUMEROUS TREES HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWNED FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN
BERKS COUNTY.

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 4025 7566 4007 7592 3996 7557 4009 7547


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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, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks36 min
Oct 4, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHILehigh41 min
Oct 4, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery35 min
Oct 4, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks56 min
Oct 4, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester33 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.