Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, August 1988
35 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1988. 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 35
- Busiest day
- August 15, 19887 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Lawrence | 69 min |
| Aug 2, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 7:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Venango | 68 min |
| Aug 5, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | McKean | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Westmoreland | 74 min |
| Aug 6, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cumberland, Dauphin | 52 min |
| Aug 6, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 61 min |
| Aug 11, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 60 min |
| Aug 12, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Washington | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 54 min |
| Aug 15, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Somerset | 63 min |
| Aug 15, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Bedford | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton | 52 min |
| Aug 15, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 39 min |
| Aug 15, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams | 26 min |
| Aug 15, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | York | 29 min |
| Aug 17, 11:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 12:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bradford | 36 min |
| Aug 17, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 30 min |
| Aug 17, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Columbia, Luzerne | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 47 min |
| Aug 17, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 60 min |
| Aug 24, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Philadelphia | 54 min |
| Aug 26, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester | 41 min |
| Aug 27, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Forest | 69 min |
| Aug 27, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Clarion | 56 min |
| Aug 28, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Tioga | 25 min |
| Aug 28, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Sullivan | 60 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- York County3
- Bradford County3
- Westmoreland County2
- Franklin County2
- Adams County2
- Tioga County2
- Sullivan County2
- Luzerne County2
- Bucks County2
- Philadelphia County2
- Beaver County1
- Lawrence County1
- Butler County1
- Crawford County1
- Venango County1
- McKean County1
- Cumberland County1
- Dauphin County1
- Washington County1
- Fayette County1
- Somerset County1
- Bedford County1
- Fulton County1
- Columbia County1
- Montgomery County1
- Chester County1
- Forest County1
- Clarion 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.