Alert archive / Pennsylvania / 1998
Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, August 1998
47 weather alerts in August 1998, 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 47
- Warnings
- 44
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 24, 199819 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 11, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 1:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin, Fulton | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford, Fulton | 116 min |
| Aug 14, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 62 min |
| Aug 14, 6:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | McKean | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 7:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 9:52 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CTP | Bedford | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 6:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PBZ | Allegheny | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lebanon | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 33 min |
| Aug 18, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 47 min |
| Aug 18, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Montgomery, Philadelphia | 47 min |
| Aug 24, 8:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 8:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 43 min |
| Aug 24, 8:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 9:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 24, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 55 min |
| Aug 24, 9:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 9:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion, Forest | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 9:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 54 min |
| Aug 24, 9:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk, McKean | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 9:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 44 min |
| Aug 24, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Armstrong, Jefferson | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 10:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 78 min |
| Aug 24, 10:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cameron, Potter | 75 min |
| Aug 24, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 48 min |
| Aug 24, 10:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Washington | 58 min |
| Aug 24, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 24, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Wayne | 77 min |
| Aug 24, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 56 min |
| Aug 24, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 7:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greene | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Allegheny, Westmoreland | 59 min |
| Aug 25, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 65 min |
| Aug 25, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clearfield | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 10:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Clinton | 21 min |
| Aug 25, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lycoming | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Sullivan | 43 min |
| Aug 26, 1:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Northampton | 35 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 | 36 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- McKean County6
- Elk County6
- Fulton County5
- Bedford County4
- Allegheny County4
- Franklin County3
- Cameron County3
- Butler County3
- Cambria County3
- Clearfield County3
- Greene County3
- Washington County3
- Adams County2
- Crawford County2
- Erie County2
- Mercer County2
- Warren County2
- Armstrong County2
- Beaver County2
- Clarion County2
- Clinton County2
- Forest County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lycoming County2
- Potter County2
- Venango County2
- Westmoreland County2
- Columbia County2
- Sullivan County2
- Wayne County2
- Lebanon County1
- Berks County1
- York County1
- Montgomery County1
- Philadelphia County1
- Blair County1
- Centre County1
- Cumberland County1
- Fayette County1
19 more counties
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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.