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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

777 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Armstrong County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
777
Busiest year
202452 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
19over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 83% of hail, wind and damage reports in Armstrong County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 19% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008181139%4100%18 min
200911645%2100%8 min
201018950%5100%22 min
2011271833%1164%23 min
201230287%1479%23 min
201345434%2886%26 min
201419185%2090%27 min
2015292321%1587%20 min
2016181422%1283%24 min
201731303%12100%26 min
2018201810%2245%30 min
201932299%2085%20 min
2020413222%1191%24 min
2021423224%12100%22 min
2022282221%2090%24 min
202320195%580%15 min
2024524513%2774%23 min
2025342235%13100%23 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 12, 4:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ72 min
Sep 12, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ55 min
Sep 3, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ41 min
Sep 3, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ58 min
Sep 3, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ48 min
Sep 3, 7:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ40 min
Sep 3, 6:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Sep 2, 9:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ22 min
Aug 22, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ48 min
Aug 22, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ47 min
Aug 22, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ41 min
Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ45 min

Nearby

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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.