Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2004, 5:25 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2004, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Berks County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1194 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KPHI 112125
SVRPHI
PAC011-112230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
524 PM EDT WED AUG 11 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS TO
AROUND 65 MPH. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
READING AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
READING AND BIRDSBORO BY 540 PM EDT...
FLEETWOOD BY 555 PM EDT...
KUTZTOWN BY 605 PM EDT...
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS IN LANCASTER
COUNTY. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS
LAT...LON 4045 7554 4043 7554 4016 7590 4019 7596
4028 7610 4046 7591 4060 7577
$$
TFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 54 min |
| Aug 11, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 95 min |
| Aug 11, 3:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Chester | 78 min |
| Aug 11, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 41 min |
| Aug 11, 5:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | PHI | 81 min | |
| Aug 11, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 53 min |
| Aug 11, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 34 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.