Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 182202 SVRPHL PAC025-089-182230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 600 PM EDT THU MAY 18 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 556 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF BRODHEADSVILLE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRODHEADSVILLE AT 615 PM EDT... 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. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. NNNN LAT...LON 4111 7564 4094 7572 4086 7540 4101 7522
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 41 min |
| May 18, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 24 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.