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Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2002

28 severe thunderstorm watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
28
Busiest month
May8 severe thunderstorm watches
Busiest day
May 12, 20023 severe thunderstorm watches

Over time

By month

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
Mar 9, 5:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler and 20 more5 hr
Mar 9, 8:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bradford, Carbon and 32 more5 hr
Mar 9, 11:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lackawanna and 10 more4 hr
Apr 19, 12:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne5 hr
Apr 28, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Chester and 30 more5 hr
May 2, 4:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFayette, Greene, Washington4 hr
May 12, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Butler, Cambria and 11 more5 hr
May 12, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Carbon, Chester and 19 more6 hr
May 12, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCChester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia5 hr
May 26, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin and 11 more6 hr
May 31, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCArmstrong, Bradford, Butler, Cameron, Carbon, Centre and 27 more5 hr
May 31, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Indiana and 3 more6 hr
May 31, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Cambria and 26 more6 hr
Jun 4, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria and 20 more5 hr
Jun 5, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cameron, Clarion and 17 more6 hr
Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Centre, Clinton and 21 more6 hr
Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBradford, Susquehanna6 hr
Jun 27, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerks, Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Cambria, Cameron and 36 more6 hr
Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene and 5 more6 hr
Jun 27, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDelaware, York4 hr
Jul 4, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming6 hr
Jul 23, 12:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester and 29 more7 hr
Jul 28, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBradford, Susquehanna, Wayne6 hr
Jul 29, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 11 more5 hr
Aug 2, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBradford, Potter, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne, Wyoming6 hr
Aug 2, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCLackawanna, Pike4 hr
Aug 5, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCFayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland6 hr
Sep 3, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrawford, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, McKean, Mercer and 2 more6 hr

By county

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

27 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 12, 20023severe thunderstorm watches
  2. May 31, 20023severe thunderstorm watches
  3. June 27, 20023severe thunderstorm watches
  4. March 10, 20022severe thunderstorm watches
  5. June 5, 20022severe thunderstorm watches
  6. August 2, 20022severe thunderstorm watches
  7. March 9, 20021severe thunderstorm watches
  8. April 19, 20021severe thunderstorm watches
  9. April 28, 20021severe thunderstorm watches
  10. May 2, 20021severe thunderstorm watches
  11. May 26, 20021severe thunderstorm watches
  12. June 4, 20021severe thunderstorm watches

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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.