Extreme Cold Watches in Pennsylvania
13 extreme cold watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 13
- Busiest year
- 202610 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 7over 2 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Somerset County5
- Cambria County4
- Armstrong County3
- Butler County3
- Clarion County3
- Clearfield County3
- Crawford County3
- Erie County3
- Fayette County3
- Forest County3
- Indiana County3
- Jefferson County3
- Mercer County3
- Venango County3
- Westmoreland County3
- Allegheny County2
- Beaver County2
- Cameron County2
- Centre County2
- Clinton County2
- Elk County2
- Greene County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lycoming County2
- McKean County2
- Potter County2
- Sullivan County2
- Tioga County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Adams County1
- Bedford County1
- Berks County1
- Blair County1
- Bradford County1
- Bucks County1
- Carbon County1
- Chester County1
- Columbia County1
- Cumberland County1
27 more counties
- Dauphin County1
- Delaware County1
- Franklin County1
- Fulton County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Juniata County1
- Lackawanna County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lebanon County1
- Lehigh County1
- Luzerne County1
- Mifflin County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Montour County1
- Northampton County1
- Northumberland County1
- Perry County1
- Philadelphia County1
- Pike County1
- Schuylkill County1
- Snyder County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
- Wyoming County1
- York County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 12:15 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:09 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Fayette, Forest, Indiana and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:02 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 1:12 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 12 hr |
| Feb 5, 12:49 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 30, 12:37 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CTP | Somerset | 13 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:17 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CTP | Cambria, Clearfield, Somerset | 14 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:05 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 12 hr |
| Jan 25, 11:57 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 9 more | 12 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:09 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 15 hr |
Nearby
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.