Alert archive / Pennsylvania / 1996
Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, May 1996
69 weather alerts in May 1996, 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 69
- Warnings
- 69
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 11, 199627 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 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 60 min |
| May 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 46 min |
| May 1, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 66 min |
| May 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 60 min |
| May 5, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 64 min |
| May 9, 1:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Somerset | 3 hr |
| May 9, 3:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Washington | 4 hr |
| May 9, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 61 min |
| May 9, 7:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Erie | 58 min |
| May 9, 7:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CLE | Crawford | 59 min |
| May 9, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Erie | 3 hr |
| May 9, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 76 min |
| May 9, 8:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford | 3 hr |
| May 9, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 70 min |
| May 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 91 min |
| May 9, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 57 min |
| May 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest | 55 min |
| May 10, 3:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 115 min |
| May 10, 5:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 4 hr |
| May 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 57 min |
| May 10, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 68 min |
| May 10, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wayne | 64 min |
| May 10, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 58 min |
| May 10, 8:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Warren | 3 hr |
| May 10, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 45 min |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 5 hr |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest, Venango | 5 hr |
| May 11, 11:09 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| May 11, 12:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean, Warren | 5 hr |
| May 11, 12:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 5 hr |
| May 11, 1:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Tioga | 4 hr |
| May 11, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Snyder | 54 min |
| May 11, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 11, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 56 min |
| May 11, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 56 min |
| May 11, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 58 min |
| May 11, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, York | 87 min |
| May 11, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 61 min |
| May 11, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 94 min |
| May 11, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 46 min |
| May 11, 3:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CTP | Schuylkill | 43 min |
| May 11, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 34 min |
| May 11, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 47 min |
| May 11, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer, Venango | 6 hr |
| May 11, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Forest | 6 hr |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 47 min |
| May 11, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 50 min |
| May 11, 9:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Venango | 8 hr |
| May 11, 9:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 8 hr |
| May 12, 4:30 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 3 hr |
| May 17, 8:07 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Fayette, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 17, 10:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 3 hr |
| May 21, 9:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 63 min |
| May 21, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 46 min |
| May 21, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 56 min |
| May 21, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 44 min |
| May 21, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne | 55 min |
| May 21, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 64 min |
| May 21, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 56 min |
| May 21, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 60 min |
| May 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 30 min |
| May 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 51 min |
| May 22, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 43 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 | 45 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 21 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lawrence County6
- Crawford County6
- Venango County5
- Warren County5
- Mercer County4
- Fayette County4
- Erie County4
- Somerset County3
- Forest County3
- Bradford County3
- Beaver County2
- Washington County2
- McKean County2
- Susquehanna County2
- Wayne County2
- Potter County2
- Columbia County2
- Schuylkill County2
- Luzerne County2
- Pike County2
- Bucks County2
- Greene County1
- Butler County1
- Clarion County1
- Jefferson County1
- Elk County1
- Cameron County1
- Tioga County1
- Juniata County1
- Snyder County1
- Franklin County1
- Adams County1
- Cumberland County1
- Perry County1
- Northumberland County1
- Dauphin County1
- York County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lebanon County1
- Berks 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.