Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 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
- Jun 6, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 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), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 477 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 061805 SVRPHI PAC011-061900- /O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0030.050606T1805Z-050606T1900Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 205 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF READING * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 202 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WERNERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF READING...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WERNERSVILLE BY 210 PM EDT READING BY 235 PM EDT LEESPORT BY 250 PM EDT LAT...LON 4031 7626 4017 7610 4035 7578 4049 7602 $$ KRUZDLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 60 min |
| Jun 6, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 57 min |
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Berks | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 55 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.