Weather alerts in Pennsylvania, May 2008

54 weather alerts in May 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 54
Warnings: 21
Watches: 8
Advisories: 16
Busiest day: May 31, 200821 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 3, 11:52 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	15 hr
May 3, 7:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CTP	Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon	3 hr
May 8, 2:47 PM EDT	Flood Watch	CTP	Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster and 2 more	19 hr
May 8, 2:47 PM EDT	Flood Watch	PHI	Berks, Delaware, Lehigh, Northampton, Philadelphia	19 hr
May 10, 2:36 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming	17 hr
May 11, 3:37 AM EDT	Flood Watch	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	30 hr
May 11, 4:17 AM EDT	Flood Watch	CTP	Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Dauphin and 9 more	32 hr
May 11, 9:52 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	PBZ		3 hr
May 11, 12:25 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	PBZ		5 hr
May 11, 3:23 PM EDT	High Wind Warning	CTP	Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset	5 hr
May 11, 3:34 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Warning	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	40 hr
May 11, 9:06 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	PHI	Delaware, Philadelphia	19 hr
May 12, 3:29 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CTP	Adams, Franklin	10 hr
May 12, 2:14 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	CTP	Huntingdon	14 hr
May 17, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	28 min
May 19, 2:29 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CTP	Lycoming, Sullivan	19 hr
May 19, 3:22 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne	17 hr
May 24, 4:04 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	CTP	Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter and 2 more	29 hr
May 27, 11:20 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradford, Cameron, Clinton, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne and 10 more	115 min
May 27, 11:59 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	CTP	McKean, Potter, Tioga	20 hr
May 27, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bucks, Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe and 5 more	8 hr
May 27, 2:45 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Wyoming	90 min
May 27, 6:04 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne	14 hr
May 27, 6:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Dauphin, Lebanon	65 min
May 27, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Berks	29 min
May 27, 7:14 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon and 3 more	61 min
May 28, 11:18 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming	20 hr
May 28, 3:15 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CLE	Crawford, Erie	17 hr
May 28, 3:16 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CTP	Blair, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Lycoming and 2 more	17 hr
May 28, 3:16 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	CTP	Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Warren	17 hr
May 28, 5:21 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	PBZ	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 4 more	13 hr
May 28, 8:07 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	PHI	Carbon, Monroe	10 hr
May 29, 2:14 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	CTP	McKean, Potter, Tioga	18 hr
May 31, 2:56 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaver, Lawrence, Mercer	94 min
May 31, 4:10 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene and 4 more	6 hr
May 31, 7:27 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Indiana and 3 more	2 hr
May 31, 8:54 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Lancaster, Lebanon and 1 more	96 min
May 31, 10:20 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware and 9 more	7 hr
May 31, 10:25 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland and 12 more	7 hr
May 31, 2:55 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	McKean, Potter, Tioga	65 min
May 31, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	40 min
May 31, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Venango	42 min
May 31, 4:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Greene	62 min
May 31, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PBZ	Clarion, Jefferson	51 min
May 31, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Warren	25 min
May 31, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Wyoming	40 min
May 31, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk	64 min
May 31, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Wayne	60 min
May 31, 5:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bradford, Cameron, Carbon, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield and 24 more	26 min
May 31, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Monroe	61 min
May 31, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	55 min
May 31, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CTP	McKean, Potter	31 min
May 31, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Pike	27 min
May 31, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PHI	Carbon, Monroe, Northampton	33 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	15
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Tornado Watch	3
Mesoscale Discussion	9
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
River Flood Warning	1
Flood Watch	4
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Frost Advisory	12
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
Wind Advisory	2
Coast and beach
Coastal Flood Warning	1
Coastal Flood Advisory	1

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.