Alert archive / Pennsylvania

Weather alerts in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

4,681 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Montgomery County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
4,681
Warnings
1,671
Watches
615
Advisories
1,033
Busiest year
2019338 alerts
Average year
114over 41 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

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 14% of tornado reports in Montgomery County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 20 minutes before, and 91% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201140100%0
201210100%0
201520100%0
201720100%0
201840100%0
201930100%0
202040100%50%
20214250%250%20 min
202350100%0
20254175%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008251444%1283%14 min
2009322619%1392%23 min
2010272026%1155%36 min
2011292128%1675%29 min
2012312519%11100%29 min
2013131115%888%37 min
2014221818%1354%17 min
2015201145%1392%22 min
2016241825%2475%19 min
2017453522%2186%25 min
2018161038%3884%29 min
2019696112%7689%26 min
202058547%10588%23 min
2021524513%8284%25 min
2022322522%8100%26 min
2023412734%3784%19 min
2024362336%1573%30 min
2025382924%3097%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087357%1100%40 min
200912467%786%96 min
20103167%10%
20119189%0
201210460%2100%26 min
20136433%2100%11 min
20147614%888%63 min
201510550%683%22 min
2016220%0
20178275%0
2018141121%2997%104 min
2019211624%30100%125 min
202012120%27100%111 min
2021191616%53100%171 min
20225340%1100%59 min
2023211529%10100%81 min
20246433%1100%68 min
2025211719%11100%85 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 13, 8:06 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Sep 3, 5:26 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Sep 3, 1:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Sep 1, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI47 min
Aug 27, 10:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI3 hr
Aug 27, 9:09 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Aug 27, 8:09 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI5 hr
Aug 27, 7:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI3 hr
Aug 27, 5:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr
Aug 23, 3:49 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI3 hr
Aug 20, 9:45 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPHI3 hr
Aug 20, 6:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr

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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.