Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, April 2002
3 tornado watches in April 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20022 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford, Erie and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron and 16 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Armstrong County2
- Beaver County2
- Butler County2
- Clarion County2
- Crawford County2
- Forest County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Mercer County2
- Venango County2
- Warren County2
- Erie County1
- Allegheny County1
- Bedford County1
- Blair County1
- Cambria County1
- Cameron County1
- Centre County1
- Clearfield County1
- Clinton County1
- Elk County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Indiana County1
- McKean County1
- Potter County1
- Somerset County1
- Tioga County1
- Washington County1
- Westmoreland County1
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.