Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, 1988
154 weather alerts in 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 154
- Warnings
- 154
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- July54 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 17, 198818 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 20, 8:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 56 min |
| Apr 23, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset | 55 min |
| Apr 23, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset | 62 min |
| May 9, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 60 min |
| May 9, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mercer | 43 min |
| May 10, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 59 min |
| May 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin | 61 min |
| May 10, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 61 min |
| May 10, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 31 min |
| May 10, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 41 min |
| May 10, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 45 min |
| May 10, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware | 41 min |
| May 10, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Montgomery | 53 min |
| May 13, 6:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 66 min |
| May 15, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Mercer | 40 min |
| May 15, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 81 min |
| May 15, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Warren | 69 min |
| May 15, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Warren | 67 min |
| May 15, 10:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie, Warren | 61 min |
| May 15, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 49 min |
| May 16, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 62 min |
| May 17, 2:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 6 hr |
| May 17, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 57 min |
| May 17, 8:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | York | 3 hr |
| May 18, 8:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 6 hr |
| May 18, 11:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 5 hr |
| May 19, 5:46 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Adams | 6 hr |
| May 19, 5:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PHI | Chester | 2 hr |
| May 19, 7:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 6 hr |
| May 19, 8:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Clinton | 6 hr |
| May 19, 1:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Franklin | 6 hr |
| May 19, 2:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 6 hr |
| May 20, 5:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Huntingdon | 5 hr |
| May 20, 6:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Somerset, Westmoreland | 4 hr |
| May 22, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 43 min |
| May 23, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 52 min |
| May 23, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 46 min |
| May 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Bedford | 85 min |
| May 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 75 min |
| May 23, 9:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Beaver | 60 min |
| May 23, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 60 min |
| May 23, 9:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Westmoreland | 70 min |
| May 23, 10:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 39 min |
| May 23, 10:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Bedford, Somerset | 2 hr |
| May 23, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Clearfield, Elk | 60 min |
| May 24, 4:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler | 2 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 54 min |
| Jun 7, 4:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland | 38 min |
| Jun 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jun 16, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset, Westmoreland | 55 min |
| Jun 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Carbon | 56 min |
| Jul 10, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Indiana | 59 min |
| Jul 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 70 min |
| Jul 11, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, York | 65 min |
| Jul 12, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Mifflin | 49 min |
| Jul 16, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie, Warren | 68 min |
| Jul 16, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 58 min |
| Jul 16, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Elk, Forest | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Warren | 65 min |
| Jul 16, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 33 min |
| Jul 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 28 min |
| Jul 16, 7:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 55 min |
| Jul 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Columbia | 45 min |
| Jul 16, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Carbon, Schuylkill | 56 min |
| Jul 16, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 9:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks | 61 min |
| Jul 16, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 26 min |
| Jul 16, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron | 30 min |
| Jul 17, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 33 min |
| Jul 17, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks, Schuylkill | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Carbon | 61 min |
| Jul 17, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Berks, Lehigh | 60 min |
| Jul 17, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northampton | 62 min |
| Jul 17, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 53 min |
| Jul 17, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 49 min |
| Jul 17, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northampton | 70 min |
| Jul 17, 5:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 48 min |
| Jul 17, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster | 39 min |
| Jul 17, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 27 min |
| Jul 26, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 64 min |
| Jul 26, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, Lebanon | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Delaware | 60 min |
| Jul 26, 7:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 31 min |
| Jul 30, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | McKean, Warren | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 45 min |
| Jul 30, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 57 min |
| Jul 30, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Butler | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Venango | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Clarion | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 57 min |
| Jul 30, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Jul 30, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clearfield | 65 min |
| Jul 30, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron, McKean | 58 min |
| Jul 30, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Cameron, Elk, McKean | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 52 min |
| Jul 30, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 69 min |
| Aug 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Venango | 68 min |
| Aug 5, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | McKean | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 74 min |
| Aug 6, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 54 min |
| Aug 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Bedford | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Columbia, Luzerne | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Forest | 69 min |
| Aug 27, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 11:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Lycoming, Sullivan | 6 hr |
| Nov 20, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver, Butler | 62 min |
| Nov 20, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Greene | 65 min |
| Nov 20, 2:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Nov 20, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Clarion, Indiana, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 63 min |
| Nov 20, 2:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 63 min |
| Nov 20, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Cambria, Somerset | 61 min |
| Nov 20, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clearfield | 61 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 135 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 17 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Erie County10
- Chester County10
- Crawford County9
- Lancaster County8
- Westmoreland County8
- Somerset County7
- Montgomery County7
- Adams County7
- Warren County6
- York County6
- Bucks County5
- Franklin County5
- Lycoming County5
- Philadelphia County5
- Butler County5
- Lebanon County5
- Bradford County5
- Dauphin County4
- Fayette County4
- Beaver County4
- Armstrong County4
- Berks County4
- Clarion County4
- Cameron County4
- McKean County4
- Delaware County3
- Northumberland County3
- Fulton County3
- Clinton County3
- Cumberland County3
- Bedford County3
- Washington County3
- Allegheny County3
- Clearfield County3
- Elk County3
- Carbon County3
- Luzerne County3
- Columbia County3
- Lawrence County3
- Sullivan County3
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19871989
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.