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Tornado Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2019

68 tornado warnings in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
68
Busiest month
May44 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 28, 201917 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
Jan 8, 10:38 AM ESTTornado WarningPBZMercer37 min
Apr 14, 6:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford41 min
Apr 14, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningCLECrawford, Erie46 min
Apr 14, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMercer, Venango26 min
Apr 14, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPYork45 min
Apr 14, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPWarren57 min
Apr 14, 9:54 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZIndiana21 min
Apr 15, 1:05 AM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna25 min
Apr 15, 2:05 AM EDTTornado WarningBGMSusquehanna, Wayne25 min
Apr 15, 3:19 AM EDTTornado WarningPHIDelaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia26 min
Apr 19, 7:25 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPHuntingdon18 min
Apr 19, 8:27 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPFranklin16 min
May 19, 4:21 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford24 min
May 19, 4:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLycoming, Sullivan26 min
May 19, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLebanon, Schuylkill23 min
May 19, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPYork26 min
May 19, 6:56 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLancaster, York34 min
May 19, 8:35 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBerks25 min
May 23, 8:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZIndiana, Westmoreland30 min
May 23, 9:09 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCambria, Somerset34 min
May 23, 9:20 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLuzerne, Pike25 min
May 23, 9:50 PM EDTTornado WarningPHICarbon, Monroe25 min
May 23, 9:59 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIMonroe, Northampton31 min
May 23, 11:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIChester29 min
May 23, 11:02 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLancaster13 min
May 25, 7:56 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZArmstrong, Westmoreland17 min
May 28, 3:21 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZArmstrong, Indiana24 min
May 28, 3:23 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPClinton, Lycoming27 min
May 28, 3:35 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPNorthumberland, Snyder, Union25 min
May 28, 3:43 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZIndiana32 min
May 28, 3:58 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPNorthumberland, Schuylkill32 min
May 28, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSchuylkill23 min
May 28, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming33 min
May 28, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming26 min
May 28, 5:20 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBlair, Cambria40 min
May 28, 5:22 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBerks23 min
May 28, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMWayne23 min
May 28, 5:42 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford, Lackawanna, Wyoming33 min
May 28, 6:08 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming22 min
May 28, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIChester36 min
May 28, 6:19 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMBradford, Wyoming41 min
May 28, 6:25 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatBGMLackawanna, Pike, Wayne50 min
May 28, 7:33 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLackawanna, Pike, Wayne23 min
May 28, 8:23 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIMonroe37 min
May 29, 1:57 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPTioga48 min
May 29, 3:17 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks, Lehigh28 min
May 29, 3:19 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLuzerne26 min
May 29, 3:19 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPSullivan26 min
May 29, 3:27 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLackawanna, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne33 min
May 29, 3:29 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPColumbia, Schuylkill31 min
May 29, 3:30 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMWyoming30 min
May 29, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks37 min
May 29, 4:18 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPCumberland, Dauphin, Perry16 min
May 29, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMLuzerne12 min
May 29, 5:08 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks, Montgomery27 min
May 29, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks27 min
Jun 13, 8:09 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIDelaware36 min
Jun 16, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMercer31 min
Jun 16, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZMercer34 min
Jun 16, 5:20 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion, Venango25 min
Jun 16, 5:43 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZButler, Mercer32 min
Jun 16, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZArmstrong, Butler, Clarion31 min
Jul 6, 3:55 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIDelaware, Philadelphia50 min
Jul 6, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks24 min
Jul 17, 6:39 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPLancaster21 min
Aug 15, 3:11 PM EDTTornado WarningCTPBedford49 min
Oct 31, 11:32 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIChester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia14 min
Oct 31, 11:54 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIBucks36 min

By county

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

8 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 28, 201917tornado warnings
  2. May 29, 201913tornado warnings
  3. May 24, 20197tornado warnings
  4. April 15, 20195tornado warnings
  5. May 19, 20195tornado warnings
  6. June 16, 20195tornado warnings
  7. April 14, 20194tornado warnings
  8. July 6, 20192tornado warnings
  9. November 1, 20192tornado warnings
  10. January 8, 20191tornado warnings
  11. April 19, 20191tornado warnings
  12. April 20, 20191tornado 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.