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Tornado Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2002

27 tornado warnings 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
27
Busiest month
April7 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 28, 20024 tornado warnings

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
Apr 15, 5:42 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford48 min
Apr 15, 6:24 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMercer36 min
Apr 15, 7:35 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZButler25 min
Apr 28, 1:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie43 min
Apr 28, 1:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCLEErie32 min
Apr 28, 2:43 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMercer47 min
Apr 28, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPYork25 min
May 2, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPYork19 min
May 13, 3:08 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBerks37 min
May 13, 3:08 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBerks112 min
May 25, 9:01 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford44 min
May 31, 4:37 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMWayne23 min
May 31, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZAllegheny48 min
May 31, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZWestmoreland45 min
Jun 4, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPClearfield23 min
Jun 5, 4:37 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford53 min
Jun 5, 5:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPWarren51 min
Jun 6, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery28 min
Jun 27, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBerks55 min
Jul 26, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZForest47 min
Jul 26, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZClarion26 min
Jul 27, 6:07 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford53 min
Jul 28, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford24 min
Nov 10, 7:56 PM ESTTornado WarningPBZMercer64 min
Nov 10, 8:23 PM ESTTornado WarningCLECrawford67 min
Nov 10, 9:42 PM ESTTornado WarningCTPWarren33 min
Nov 10, 9:42 PM ESTTornado WarningCTPWarren33 min

By county

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

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 28, 20024tornado warnings
  2. November 11, 20024tornado warnings
  3. April 15, 20023tornado warnings
  4. May 31, 20023tornado warnings
  5. May 13, 20022tornado warnings
  6. June 5, 20022tornado warnings
  7. July 26, 20022tornado warnings
  8. May 2, 20021tornado warnings
  9. May 26, 20021tornado warnings
  10. June 4, 20021tornado warnings
  11. June 6, 20021tornado warnings
  12. June 27, 20021tornado warnings

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. Rebuilt daily.