Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT for Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 27 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
- May 14, 2002, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bucks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:35 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, 6:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Quakertown, 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 142133 SVRPHI PAC017-142200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 532 PM EDT TUE MAY 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUCKS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 600 PM EDT. * AT 529 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF QUAKERTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PERKASIE AT 540 PM. DUBLIN AT 545 PM. DOYLESTOWN AT 550 PM. RICHBORO...NEWTOWN...LANGHORNE AT 600 PM. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. $$ LAT...LON 4055 7524 4042 7544 4013 7492 4019 7483 KRUZDLO
The 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, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 34 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.