Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 8:31 PM EDT for Northampton County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 44 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 14, 2005, 8:31 PM EDT (00:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Northampton County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1061 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 970 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 150031 SVRPHI PAC095-150115- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0134.050815T0031Z-050815T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 831 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL 915 PM EDT * AT 827 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 WIND GAP...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTH OF BETHLEHEM...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EAST BANGOR BY 840 PM EDT IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 4093 7523 4079 7537 4080 7512 4095 7514 $$ EBERWINE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 9:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 38 min |
| Aug 14, 9:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 10:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Aug 14, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 12:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware, Philadelphia | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.