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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2005Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 48 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: Jul 27, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2005, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 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), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 27, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 272012
SVRPHI
PAC011-272100-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0084.050727T2012Z-050727T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
412 PM EDT WED JUL 27 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 408 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTH OF
  STRAUSSTOWN...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF READING...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMBURG BY 420 PM EDT
  LENHARTSVILLE BY 430 PM EDT
  KUTZTOWN BY 440 PM EDT

HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 4065 7627 4042 7632 4051 7600 4051 7565
      4069 7590

$$

NIERENBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	39 min
Jul 27, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton	45 min
Jul 27, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	43 min
Jul 27, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	58 min
Jul 27, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Philadelphia	45 min
Jul 27, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	56 min
Jul 27, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery	35 min

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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.