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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 189, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

July 27, 2008Berks County, Chester County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2008, 5:04 PM EDT for Berks County, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 56 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, 2008, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2008, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Berks County, PA, Chester County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 11:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 1356 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1062 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 272104
SVRPHI
PAC011-029-272200-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0189.080727T2104Z-080727T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
504 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
  NORTH CENTRAL CHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 502 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...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BIRDSBORO BY 540 PM...
  ELVERSON BY 545 PM...
  GLENMOORE BY 600 PM...

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM SUNDAY
EVENING FOR DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND AND NEW JERSEY.

LAT...LON 4039 7615 4025 7567 4003 7575 4011 7595
      4014 7590 4033 7618
TIME...MOT...LOC 2104Z 293DEG 18KT 4027 7608

$$

IOVINO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 11:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton	70 min
Jul 27, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	53 min
Jul 27, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery	56 min
Jul 27, 12:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 27, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	67 min
Jul 27, 12:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Bucks, Chester, Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 27, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester	63 min
Jul 27, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	60 min
Jul 27, 1:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	PHI	Chester	3 hr
Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	61 min
Jul 27, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	64 min
Jul 27, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Philadelphia	61 min
Jul 27, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	58 min
Jul 27, 2:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Bucks	2 hr
Jul 27, 6:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PHI	Chester	72 min

Nearby

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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.