Alert archive / Pennsylvania

Weather alerts in Bradford County, Pennsylvania

3,296 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Bradford County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,296
Warnings
1,047
Watches
524
Advisories
667
Busiest year
2011273 alerts
Average year
82over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 44% of tornado reports in Bradford County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 72% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%10%
2011110%2100%16 min
20123233%10%
201320100%0
20143233%1100%25 min
201620100%10%
20182150%1100%1 min
20196183%20%
202120100%0
202320100%0
202410100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008251732%2692%23 min
200916850%667%22 min
2010181422%4100%23 min
2011463133%2685%19 min
2012171229%1567%21 min
2013191047%888%23 min
201416850%667%17 min
2015330%2100%27 min
20166517%1233%21 min
2017251732%1759%24 min
201816756%1250%44 min
2019352820%3497%24 min
202010820%683%14 min
2021392341%3158%17 min
2022171418%2685%21 min
2023271448%1155%26 min
2024241058%12100%22 min
202514936%875%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%2100%109 min
200920100%0
20105340%3100%88 min
2011201525%2496%126 min
20136267%1100%39 min
201410100%0
201510100%10%
20162150%5100%213 min
20178713%1392%82 min
2018271833%4498%112 min
20195340%786%17 min
20206350%989%84 min
202115753%1593%84 min
20222150%2100%8 min
20238538%3100%45 min
20247357%3100%79 min
20256350%8100%37 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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 2, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM46 min
Sep 2, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM67 min
Sep 1, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM61 min
Sep 1, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningBGM32 min
Sep 1, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WarningBGM29 min
Sep 1, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM61 min
Aug 12, 5:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM3 hr
Aug 12, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM23 min
Aug 12, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM31 min
Aug 12, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM37 min
Aug 10, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM24 min
Aug 2, 5:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM5 hr

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.