Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

May 26, 2004Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2004, 11:21 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 39 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
May 26, 2004, 11:21 PM EDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2004, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
39 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), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2004-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 337 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Washington/Dulle, VA at 00:00Z on 2004-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

373 
WUUS51 KPHI 270321
SVRPHI
PAC011-270400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1121 PM EDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF READING

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT

* AT 1119 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOMELSDORF...OR ABOUT 17
  MILES WEST OF READING...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BERNVILLE BY 1135 PM EDT
  WERNERSVILLE BY 1140 PM EDT
  LEESPORT BY 1150 PM EDT
  READING BY 1155 PM EDT
  7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLEETWOOD BY MIDNIGHT EDT

LAT...LON 4046 7646 4018 7588 4045 7557 4074 7614

$$

EBERWINE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 10:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMonroe39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.