Alert archive / Pennsylvania / 1988
Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, May 1988
43 weather alerts in May 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 May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 43
- Warnings
- 43
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 19, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 | 27 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 15 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County6
- Erie County6
- Chester County5
- Montgomery County4
- Adams County4
- Lancaster County3
- Warren County3
- Mercer County2
- Delaware County2
- Bucks County2
- York County2
- Franklin County2
- Somerset County2
- Westmoreland County2
- Bedford County2
- Butler County2
- Armstrong County2
- Dauphin County1
- Northumberland County1
- Fulton County1
- Clinton County1
- Lycoming County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Fayette County1
- Philadelphia County1
- Cumberland County1
- Washington County1
- Allegheny County1
- Beaver County1
- Clearfield County1
- Elk 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.