Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1987

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, August 1987

14 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1987. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
14
Busiest day
August 2, 19877 severe thunderstorm warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie65 min
Aug 2, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEMercer46 min
Aug 2, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPHuntingdon60 min
Aug 2, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELawrence53 min
Aug 2, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford, Erie72 min
Aug 2, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler60 min
Aug 2, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLELawrence66 min
Aug 2, 8:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington57 min
Aug 2, 9:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZAllegheny, Washington50 min
Aug 9, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWashington26 min
Aug 9, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPLancaster63 min
Aug 9, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester65 min
Aug 9, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIChester59 min
Aug 9, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIDelaware37 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

Nearby

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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.