Alert archive / Pennsylvania / 1988
Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, August 1988
37 weather alerts in August 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 August 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 37
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 15, 19888 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 35 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Westmoreland County3
- York County3
- Bradford County3
- Sullivan County3
- Franklin County2
- Adams County2
- Tioga County2
- Luzerne County2
- Bucks County2
- Philadelphia County2
- Beaver County1
- Lawrence County1
- Butler County1
- Crawford County1
- Venango County1
- McKean County1
- Cumberland County1
- Dauphin County1
- Washington County1
- Fayette County1
- Somerset County1
- Bedford County1
- Fulton County1
- Columbia County1
- Montgomery County1
- Chester County1
- Forest County1
- Clarion County1
- Lycoming County1
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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.