Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Mesoscale Discussions / 2008
Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, August 2008
14 mesoscale discussions in August 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 14
- Busiest day
- August 2, 20084 mesoscale discussions
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 10:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Mercer | 94 min |
| Aug 2, 10:11 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 94 min |
| Aug 2, 1:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, York | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Lancaster, York | 96 min |
| Aug 7, 11:34 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, McKean, Monroe and 7 more | 116 min |
| Aug 7, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne | 65 min |
| Aug 7, 5:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Carbon, Chester, Columbia, Dauphin and 10 more | 63 min |
| Aug 10, 10:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia | 33 min |
| Aug 10, 1:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe and 4 more | 85 min |
| Aug 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Cumberland and 21 more | 84 min |
| Aug 11, 10:56 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bucks, Delaware, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin and 10 more | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Lehigh and 6 more | 88 min |
| Aug 15, 6:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Philadelphia | 85 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Berks County6
- Bucks County6
- Montgomery County6
- Philadelphia County6
- Adams County5
- York County5
- Monroe County5
- Pike County5
- Lehigh County5
- Lancaster County4
- Luzerne County4
- Wayne County4
- Chester County4
- Delaware County4
- Northampton County4
- Bradford County3
- Lackawanna County3
- Sullivan County3
- Susquehanna County3
- Carbon County3
- Columbia County3
- Dauphin County3
- Lebanon County3
- Schuylkill County3
- Wyoming County2
- Montour County2
- Northumberland County2
- Cumberland County2
- Franklin County2
- Juniata County2
- Perry County2
- Crawford County1
- Mercer County1
- Lycoming County1
- McKean County1
- Potter County1
- Tioga County1
- Snyder County1
- Union County1
- Huntingdon County1
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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.