High Wind Watches in Pennsylvania
104 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 104
- Busiest year
- 200615 high wind watches
- Average year
- 5over 22 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.
- Erie County29
- Somerset County25
- Cambria County24
- Bedford County22
- Blair County21
- Clearfield County19
- Crawford County18
- Cameron County18
- Elk County18
- Fulton County18
- McKean County18
- Potter County18
- Franklin County17
- Warren County17
- Cumberland County16
- Perry County16
- Adams County15
- Centre County15
- Delaware County15
- Huntingdon County15
- Philadelphia County15
- Berks County14
- Carbon County14
- Clinton County14
- Dauphin County14
- Lancaster County14
- Lebanon County14
- Lehigh County14
- Monroe County14
- Northampton County14
- York County14
- Juniata County13
- Mifflin County13
- Schuylkill County13
- Tioga County13
- Wayne County12
- Fayette County12
- Westmoreland County12
- Lackawanna County11
- Luzerne County11
27 more counties
- Pike County11
- Susquehanna County11
- Wyoming County11
- Allegheny County10
- Bradford County10
- Clarion County10
- Forest County10
- Greene County10
- Jefferson County10
- Lycoming County10
- Mercer County10
- Snyder County10
- Sullivan County10
- Union County10
- Venango County10
- Washington County10
- Armstrong County9
- Beaver County9
- Butler County9
- Columbia County9
- Lawrence County9
- Montour County9
- Northumberland County9
- Bucks County9
- Montgomery County9
- Chester County8
- Indiana County3
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 1:06 PM EDT | High Wind Watch | CLE | Erie | 13 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:33 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | CLE | Crawford, Erie | 12 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. Rebuilt daily.