Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 4, 2000, 7:19 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 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, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2000, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bucks County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 042320 SVRPHL PAC017-050015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 719 PM EDT WED OCT 4 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 815 PM EDT. * AT 718 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL BUCKS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WOODSIDE... RICHBORO... NEWTOWN... LEVITTOWN... LANGHORNE... IVYLAND... FEASTERVILLE... DOYLESTOWN... CHALFONT... BRISTOL... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAMAGING WINDS CAUSING NUMBEROUS DOWNED TREES HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED IN THE NORTHERN PART OF BUCKS COUNTY. 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 4030 7528 4007 7493 4016 7474 4047 7509 RNS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 33 min |
| 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, 7:57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.