Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2008
32 flood watches in 2008. 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 flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 32
- Busiest month
- March12 flood watches
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20085 flood watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 4, 1:39 PM EST | Flood Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 53 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:24 AM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 6 more | 37 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:43 AM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 47 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:45 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton and 15 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:32 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 31 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:28 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Delaware, Lehigh, Northampton, Philadelphia | 29 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:02 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 43 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:34 AM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 6 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:25 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 54 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:48 AM EST | Flood Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 41 hr |
| Mar 3, 2:17 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more | 44 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:33 PM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:22 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Mar 6, 10:20 PM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 51 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:34 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Centre, Clinton, Columbia and 18 more | 38 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:54 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Forest and 6 more | 42 hr |
| Mar 18, 5:21 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk and 1 more | 45 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:52 PM EDT | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 18, 4:04 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton | 36 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:23 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Greene | 23 hr |
| Apr 20, 9:25 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Franklin and 7 more | 19 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 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 |
| Jul 23, 2:56 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 33 hr |
| Sep 4, 3:00 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and 1 more | 57 hr |
| Sep 5, 3:07 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 43 hr |
| Sep 5, 10:50 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 33 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin, Juniata, Lancaster and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 3:28 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Delaware, Lehigh, Northampton, Philadelphia | 42 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:18 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill, York | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lehigh County9
- Northampton County9
- York County8
- Berks County7
- Delaware County7
- Philadelphia County7
- Adams County7
- Dauphin County7
- Lancaster County7
- Lackawanna County6
- Luzerne County6
- Pike County6
- Susquehanna County6
- Wayne County6
- Wyoming County6
- Juniata County6
- Carbon County6
- Monroe County6
- Cumberland County6
- Lebanon County6
- Blair County5
- Cambria County5
- Huntingdon County5
- Mifflin County5
- Franklin County5
- Fulton County5
- Perry County5
- Schuylkill County5
- Greene County4
- Bradford County4
- Centre County4
- Clinton County4
- Columbia County4
- Lycoming County4
- Montour County4
- Northumberland County4
- Snyder County4
- Union County4
- Bedford County4
- Somerset County4
21 more counties
- Allegheny County3
- Armstrong County3
- Beaver County3
- Butler County3
- Clarion County3
- Forest County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Mercer County3
- Venango County3
- Washington County3
- Cameron County3
- Clearfield County3
- Elk County3
- Sullivan County3
- Crawford County2
- Erie County2
- McKean County2
- Potter County2
- Tioga County2
- Warren County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.