Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:32 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 43 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
- May 13, 2000, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berks County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lenhartsville, PA | |
| May 13, 6:21 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Reading, 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
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 680 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
413 WUUS51 KPHI 132132 SVRPHL PAC011-132215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 532 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 615 PM EDT. * AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 14 MILES WEST OF STRAUSSTOWN...OR ABOUT 27 MILES NORTHEAST OF HARRISBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... STRAUSSTOWN AT 550 PM EDT... FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 46 min |
| May 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 13, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 52 min |
| May 13, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 41 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 37 min |
| May 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 31 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.