Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2002, 5:11 PM EDT for Berks County, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 34 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
- May 14, 2002, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berks County, PA, Lehigh County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Allentown, PA | |
| May 14, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Reading, 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
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 1314 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 88 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -115 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 142111
SVRPHI
PAC011-077-142145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
510 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
* UNTIL 545 PM EDT.
* AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES
NORTHWEST OF SCHNECKSVILLE TO 3 MILES WEST OF BERNVILLE...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
LEESPORT AT 515 PM.
SCHNECKSVILLE...KUTZTOWN AT 520 PM.
READING...FLEETWOOD AT 525 PM.
ANCIENT OAKS AT 530 PM.
EMMAUS AT 540 PM.
* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ANCIENT OAKS...
BERNVILLE...
EMMAUS...
FLEETWOOD...
HAMBURG...
KUTZTOWN...
LEESPORT...
LENHARTSVILLE...
READING...
SCHNECKSVILLE...
STRAUSSTOWN...
FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE
TELEVISION OUTLET.
$$
LAT...LON 4064 7590 4048 7627 4023 7590 4053 7542
4074 7565
KRUZDLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| May 13, 9:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 2 hr |
| May 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 27 min |
| May 14, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 30 min |
| May 14, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware | 30 min |
| May 14, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 22 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.