Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 5:53 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 25, 2000, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berks County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Strausstown, 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 25, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
072 WUUS51 KPHI 252153 SVRPHL PAC011-252300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 553 PM EDT SUN JUN 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 700 PM EDT. * AT 547 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... OVER STRAUSSTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BERNVILLE AT 600 PM... HAMBURG AT 610 PM... LEESPORT AT 620 PM... READING AT 630 PM... FLEETWOOD...KUTZTOWN AT 640 PM... BIRDSBORO AT 650 PM... DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM ALONG WITH SMALL TO MODERATE HAIL. 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. $$ JWH LAT...LON 4061 7631 4047 7636 4020 7582 4050 7564
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 32 min |
| Jun 25, 7:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
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.