Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2005, 9:43 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 32 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, 9:43 PM EDT (01:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2005, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 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), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 2485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1376 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 150143
SVRPHI
PAC011-150215-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0140.050815T0143Z-050815T0215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
943 PM EDT SUN AUG 14 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
* AT 940 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
KUTZTOWN...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF READING...AND MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BALLY BY 950 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 4051 7582 4033 7578 4031 7569 4043 7555
4052 7572 4054 7570
$$
EBERWINEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 44 min |
| 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, 9:58 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.