Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, August 2008
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 10, 20083 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 2, 10:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh, Montgomery and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Greene and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 10, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton, Lancaster and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Fulton and 5 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County3
- Franklin County3
- Fulton County3
- Lancaster County3
- York County3
- Berks County2
- Bucks County2
- Chester County2
- Delaware County2
- Lehigh County2
- Montgomery County2
- Northampton County2
- Philadelphia County2
- Bedford County2
- Somerset County2
- Cumberland County2
- Dauphin County2
- Lebanon County2
- Perry County2
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Carbon County1
- Monroe County1
- Schuylkill County1
- Lackawanna County1
- Luzerne County1
- Pike County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Wayne County1
- Wyoming 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.