Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flood Watches
Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2018
32 flood watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 32
- Busiest month
- January8 flood watches
- Busiest day
- September 8, 20184 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2:57 PM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 4 days |
| Jan 11, 4:34 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Elk and 10 more | 51 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:08 PM EST | Flood Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 39 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:45 PM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more | 32 hr |
| Jan 14, 7:48 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Perry, York | 23 hr |
| Jan 18, 12:18 PM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Lancaster, York | 11 days |
| Jan 23, 6:18 AM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne | 13 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:52 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 4 days |
| Feb 10, 3:20 AM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery and 2 more | 39 hr |
| Feb 11, 10:14 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 4 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:59 PM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 50 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:23 PM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene and 3 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:15 AM EST | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more | 3 days |
| Feb 22, 11:29 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 68 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:41 AM EST | Flood Watch | CLE | Crawford | 26 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:45 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia | 45 hr |
| May 16, 1:26 PM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton and 5 more | 72 hr |
| May 16, 1:30 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette, Greene, Westmoreland | 56 hr |
| May 16, 3:35 PM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery and 2 more | 3 days |
| Sep 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 27 more | 64 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:34 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 8 more | 49 hr |
| Sep 8, 3:34 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 60 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:14 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 62 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:50 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PBZ | Fayette, Jefferson, Westmoreland | 15 hr |
| Sep 27, 3:24 AM EDT | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 27 hr |
| Sep 27, 4:54 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Lancaster, York | 23 hr |
| Oct 31, 3:56 AM EDT | Flood Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 54 hr |
| Nov 25, 3:35 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 27 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:16 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 3 days |
| Dec 19, 3:49 AM EST | Flood Watch | CTP | Adams, Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin and 17 more | 69 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:18 PM EST | Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 58 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:13 PM EST | Flood Watch | PHI | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 28 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lancaster County8
- York County8
- Bucks County8
- Montgomery County8
- Philadelphia County8
- Northampton County7
- Chester County7
- Delaware County7
- Fayette County6
- Westmoreland County6
- Lehigh County6
- Adams County6
- Greene County5
- Cumberland County5
- Dauphin County5
- Perry County5
- Berks County5
- Lebanon County5
- Lackawanna County4
- Luzerne County4
- Pike County4
- Wayne County4
- Centre County4
- Clinton County4
- Columbia County4
- Lycoming County4
- Montour County4
- Northumberland County4
- Snyder County4
- Sullivan County4
- Tioga County4
- Union County4
- Allegheny County4
- Armstrong County4
- Beaver County4
- Butler County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Washington County4
- Monroe County4
26 more counties
- Somerset County4
- Franklin County4
- Fulton County4
- Bradford County3
- Susquehanna County3
- Wyoming County3
- Cameron County3
- Clearfield County3
- Elk County3
- McKean County3
- Potter County3
- Warren County3
- Crawford County3
- Clarion County3
- Forest County3
- Mercer County3
- Venango County3
- Cambria County3
- Bedford County3
- Huntingdon County3
- Juniata County3
- Mifflin County3
- Schuylkill County3
- Carbon County3
- Erie County2
- Blair 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.