Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, August 1997
7 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- August 16, 19975 severe thunderstorm watches
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 16, 8:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Erie | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradford, Cameron, Clarion, Clinton, Crawford, Elk and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Lawrence, Mercer and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crawford County3
- Erie County3
- Clarion County3
- Mercer County3
- Venango County3
- Bradford County2
- Cameron County2
- Clinton County2
- Elk County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lycoming County2
- Sullivan County2
- Tioga County2
- Wyoming County2
- Lebanon County2
- Butler County2
- Lawrence County2
- Bedford County2
- Fulton County2
- Somerset County2
- Forest County1
- McKean County1
- Potter County1
- Warren County1
- Berks County1
- Bucks County1
- Carbon County1
- Columbia County1
- Dauphin County1
- Juniata County1
- Lackawanna County1
- Lehigh County1
- Luzerne County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Montour County1
- Northampton County1
- Northumberland County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
27 more counties
- Schuylkill County1
- Snyder County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Union County1
- Wayne County1
- Allegheny County1
- Armstrong County1
- Beaver County1
- Blair County1
- Cambria County1
- Centre County1
- Clearfield County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Indiana County1
- Mifflin County1
- Washington County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Adams County1
- Cumberland County1
- Franklin County1
- Lancaster County1
- York County1
- Chester County1
- Delaware County1
- Philadelphia 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.