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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly

June 26, 2009Berks County, Pennsylvania

NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2009, 5:35 PM EDT for Berks County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 55 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2009, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2009, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Berks County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 5:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	9 Ese Reading, PA	80 FT TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO HOUSE WITH NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON RT 62 AND A VEHICKLE BLOWN OFF ROAD IN AMITY TWP.
Jun 26, 5:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.88	10 Ne Reading, PA	NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN FLEETWOOD
Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	9 Ese Reading, PA	80 FT TREE BLOWN DOWN ONTO HOUSE WITH NUMEROUS TREES AND WIRES DOWN AND A VEHICLE BLOWN OFF ROAD IN AMITY TWP.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 26, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KPHI 262135
SVRPHI
PAC011-262230-
/O.NEW.KPHI.SV.W.0095.090626T2135Z-090626T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
535 PM EDT FRI JUN 26 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY NJ HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BERKS COUNTY IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF READING...

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 533 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  LEESPORT...OR NEAR READING...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  READING AROUND 540 PM EDT...
  FLEETWOOD AROUND 550 PM EDT...
  8 MILES NORTH OF BIRDSBORO AROUND 555 PM EDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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 1000 PM EDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

&&

LAT...LON 4051 7642 4053 7628 4043 7554 4024 7570
      4018 7581 4029 7612 4036 7621 4036 7624
      4049 7644
TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 277DEG 20KT 4039 7596

$$

SZATKOWSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	59 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	82 min
Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	69 min
Jun 26, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery	59 min
Jun 26, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Lehigh	59 min
Jun 26, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Montgomery	52 min
Jun 26, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	45 min
Jun 26, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks	41 min
Jun 26, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Montgomery, Philadelphia	48 min
Jun 26, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia	50 min
Jun 26, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia	60 min
Jun 26, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia	92 min
Jun 26, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	45 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Philadelphia	65 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.