Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 7:24 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 36 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, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Berks County, PA
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 24, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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.
761 WUUS51 KPHI 242324 SVRPHL PAC011-250000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 724 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 800 PM EDT. * AT 721 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 11 MILES WEST OF BERNVILLE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF READING...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WERNERSVILLE AT 740 PM EDT... READING AT 750 PM EDT... BIRDSBORO AT 755 PM EDT... HAIL UP TO 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. RNS/MPD NNNN LAT...LON 4052 7638 4044 7633 4017 7587 4036 7573
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 31 min |
| 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 |
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.