Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 7:53 PM EDT for Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania; Warren County, New Jersey. It was in force for 37 min. 3 reports 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
- May 13, 2000, 7:53 PM EDT (23:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Warren County, NJ, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bethlehem, PA | |
| May 13, 7:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 87 E | Bethlehem, PA | |
| May 13, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 74 E | Countywide, NJ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
378 WFUS51 KPHI 132354 TORPHL NJC041-PAC077-095-140030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 753 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EAST CENTRAL LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SOUTHERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA SOUTHWESTERN WARREN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 830 PM EDT. * AT 751 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BETHLEHEM...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... EASTON...OLD ORCHARD AT 800 PM EDT... FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 43 min |
| May 13, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 46 min |
| May 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 13, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 52 min |
| May 13, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 41 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 31 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.