Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 7:54 PM EDT for Berks County, Lehigh County, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 81 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2003, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 81 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 23:56 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1296 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
671 WUUS51 KPHI 212354 SVRPHI PAC011-077-095-220115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 755 PM EDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LEHIGH COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. * UNTIL 915 PM EDT. * AT 750 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG BLUE MOUNTAIN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LEESPORT...BELFAST...BATH AT 800 PM. NAZARETH...KUTZTOWN AT 805 PM. FLEETWOOD AT 815 PM. ALLENTOWN AT 820 PM. READING...BETHLEHEM AT 825 PM. DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. FOR THE LATEST STORM INFORMATION...PLEASE TUNE TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION...OR YOUR CABLE TELEVISION OUTLET. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM. $$ LAT...LON 4095 7513 4034 7639 4018 7588 4062 7522 IOVINO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon, Monroe | 51 min |
| Jul 21, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh, Northampton | 53 min |
| Jul 21, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.