Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, May 1997
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 3, 19972 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria and 30 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna and 14 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 9:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Carbon and 28 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia | 5 hr |
| May 18, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Erie and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Bradford and 32 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Carbon, Columbia, Dauphin, Lackawanna, Lebanon and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bucks | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Berks County4
- Bucks County4
- Carbon County4
- Lackawanna County4
- Lehigh County4
- Luzerne County4
- Monroe County4
- Northampton County4
- Pike County4
- Schuylkill County4
- Susquehanna County4
- Wayne County4
- Montour County4
- Chester County3
- Delaware County3
- Lancaster County3
- Montgomery County3
- Philadelphia County3
- Armstrong County3
- Bedford County3
- Blair County3
- Bradford County3
- Centre County3
- Columbia County3
- Dauphin County3
- Fulton County3
- Huntingdon County3
- Juniata County3
- Lycoming County3
- Mifflin County3
- Northumberland County3
- Perry County3
- Snyder County3
- Sullivan County3
- Union County3
- Westmoreland County3
- Lebanon County3
- Wyoming County3
- Adams County2
- Cambria County2
27 more counties
- Cameron County2
- Clarion County2
- Clearfield County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Elk County2
- Fayette County2
- Forest County2
- Franklin County2
- Indiana County2
- Jefferson County2
- McKean County2
- Potter County2
- Somerset County2
- Tioga County2
- York County2
- Allegheny County2
- Beaver County2
- Butler County2
- Lawrence County2
- Venango County2
- Washington County2
- Crawford County1
- Erie County1
- Mercer County1
- Greene County1
- Warren 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.