Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 5:48 PM EDT for Carbon County, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 42 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2000, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2000, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Carbon County, PA, Monroe County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 E | Gilbert, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 2238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 022149 SVRPHL PAC025-089-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 548 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CARBON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 630 PM EDT. * AT 543 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... 9 MILES WEST OF WHITE HAVEN...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF WILKES-BARRE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEATHERLY...WHITE HAVEN AT 555 PM EDT... BRODHEADSVILLE AT 620 PM EDT... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. INTENSE LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE. WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. 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 4130 7583 4104 7606 4075 7542 4100 7522
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 34 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.