Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 2002, 2:11 PM EDT for Berks County, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 49 min. 2 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
- Jun 12, 2002, 2:11 PM EDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berks County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 E | Bath, PA | |
| Jun 12, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | East Texas, 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 nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1299 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KPHI 121811 SVRPHI PAC011-077-095-121900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 210 PM EDT WED JUN 12 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN BERKS COUNTY LEHIGH COUNTY NORTHAMPTON COUNTY * UNTIL 300 PM EDT. * AT 208 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF SCHNECKSVILLE TO 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAMBURG...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SCHNECKSVILLE AT 220 PM. NORTHAMPTON AT 230 PM. LENHARTSVILLE...HAMBURG AT 240 PM. BETHLEHEM AT 250 PM. KUTZTOWN...ANCIENT OAKS...EMMAUS...OLD ORCHARD AT 300 PM. HEAVY RAIN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING IS ALSO LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. STORM TOTALS COULD REACH TWO INCHES IN AN HOUR. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4076 7565 4064 7642 4039 7585 4064 7519 TFG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 48 min |
| Jun 12, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.