Alert archive / Pennsylvania

Weather alerts in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

3,413 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Susquehanna County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,413
Warnings
1,027
Watches
563
Advisories
675
Busiest year
2011247 alerts
Average year
90over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Susquehanna County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 74% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20102150%0
20114250%1100%4 min
20123167%1100%11 min
201320100%0
20145260%1100%27 min
201710100%0
201950100%10%
202010100%0
202120100%0
202210100%0
20234250%250%31 min
202410100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008342138%1191%19 min
200921862%2100%20 min
2010231630%1788%27 min
2011463230%1675%30 min
2012201525%1794%18 min
2013221245%1164%36 min
2014201145%989%28 min
2015330%0
20165420%20%
2017241729%2195%24 min
201819953%1883%30 min
2019302227%1995%26 min
2020161131%3586%26 min
2021432640%1771%19 min
2022292031%1984%26 min
2023362239%4073%21 min
2024351946%3789%25 min
202514750%1486%12 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%250%103 min
20092150%813%126 min
20107357%3100%98 min
201117947%989%168 min
20135420%1100%326 min
20143233%4100%60 min
201710550%683%66 min
2018151127%11100%132 min
20194250%425%17 min
20204250%250%108 min
20216433%520%83 min
202210100%0
202310640%1942%111 min
202411736%14100%180 min
20256267%1100%28 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 3, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM43 min
Sep 2, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM64 min
Sep 2, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM46 min
Sep 1, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM61 min
Aug 27, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM41 min
Aug 12, 9:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM43 min
Aug 12, 9:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM27 min
Aug 12, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBGM27 min
Aug 12, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM53 min
Aug 10, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM34 min
Aug 10, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM24 min
Aug 7, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM41 min

Nearby

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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.