Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 3:29 PM EDT for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 31 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 24, 2000, 3:29 PM EDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Carbon County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
192 WUUS51 KPHI 241930 SVRPHL PAC025-242000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 329 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 400 PM EDT. * AT 326 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 6 MILES WEST OF WHITE HAVEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEATHERLY...WHITE HAVEN AT 335 PM EDT... HAIL UP TO ABOUT ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. AMC/MPD NNNN LAT...LON 4115 7595 4097 7601 4083 7553 4107 7561
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 36 min |
| May 24, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 24 min |
| May 24, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 26 min |
| May 24, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 26 min |
| May 24, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.