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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Cameron County, Pennsylvania

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

Cameron County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
320
Busiest year
202630 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
8over 39 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, 79% of hail, wind and damage reports in Cameron County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 30 minutes before, and 35% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089367%0
20097357%0
2010191047%367%8 min
20119633%4100%45 min
2012241825%1100%46 min
2013291838%1100%43 min
2014151127%250%44 min
2015131115%1100%20 min
20167529%0
201710550%0
2018770%3100%19 min
201911645%875%39 min
20208538%743%8 min
20218625%2100%48 min
20228625%1100%20 min
2023660%4100%27 min
202411645%1100%5 min
20256350%0

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 3, 12:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP61 min
Sep 2, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP41 min
Sep 2, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP43 min
Sep 2, 9:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP50 min
Sep 2, 9:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP42 min
Sep 2, 8:51 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatCTP39 min
Sep 2, 8:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP80 min
Aug 22, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP52 min
Aug 10, 11:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP52 min
Jul 18, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP64 min
Jul 18, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP62 min
Jul 18, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTP48 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.