Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pennsylvania, May 1996
45 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 1996. 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 May 1996. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 45
- Busiest day
- May 11, 199617 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Mercer | 60 min |
| May 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 62 min |
| May 1, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 46 min |
| May 1, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Beaver | 66 min |
| May 5, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Greene | 63 min |
| May 5, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette | 60 min |
| May 5, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Somerset | 64 min |
| May 9, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Erie | 61 min |
| May 9, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 76 min |
| May 9, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 44 min |
| May 9, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Venango | 70 min |
| May 9, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | McKean | 91 min |
| May 9, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Warren | 57 min |
| May 9, 9:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Forest | 55 min |
| May 10, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CLE | Crawford | 57 min |
| May 10, 7:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 68 min |
| May 10, 8:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wayne | 64 min |
| May 10, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Lawrence, Mercer | 58 min |
| May 10, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Butler | 45 min |
| May 11, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Juniata, Snyder | 54 min |
| May 11, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 11, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Adams, Cumberland | 56 min |
| May 11, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Perry | 56 min |
| May 11, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Northumberland | 58 min |
| May 11, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Dauphin, York | 87 min |
| May 11, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia, Schuylkill | 61 min |
| May 11, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Lancaster, Lebanon | 94 min |
| May 11, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 46 min |
| May 11, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks | 34 min |
| May 11, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh | 47 min |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe | 50 min |
| May 11, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 47 min |
| May 11, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 50 min |
| May 21, 9:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Potter | 63 min |
| May 21, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | Fayette, Westmoreland | 46 min |
| May 21, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Cambria, Somerset | 56 min |
| May 21, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Columbia | 44 min |
| May 21, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne | 55 min |
| May 21, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Bedford, Blair | 64 min |
| May 21, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 56 min |
| May 21, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Fulton, Huntingdon | 60 min |
| May 21, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 30 min |
| May 22, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 51 min |
| May 22, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 43 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County3
- Bradford County3
- Mercer County2
- Lawrence County2
- Venango County2
- Fayette County2
- Somerset County2
- Warren County2
- Susquehanna County2
- Wayne County2
- Columbia County2
- Luzerne County2
- Pike County2
- Bucks County2
- Beaver County1
- Greene County1
- Erie County1
- McKean County1
- Forest County1
- Butler County1
- Juniata County1
- Snyder County1
- Franklin County1
- Adams County1
- Cumberland County1
- Perry County1
- Northumberland County1
- Dauphin County1
- York County1
- Schuylkill County1
- Lancaster County1
- Lebanon County1
- Berks County1
- Lehigh County1
- Monroe County1
- Potter County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Cambria County1
- Lackawanna County1
- Bedford County1
3 more counties
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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.