Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2003
5 tornado watches in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20032 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Cameron and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Centre, Clinton and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 12:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaver, Butler, Crawford, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Erie | 5 hr |
| Nov 19, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware, Lancaster and 9 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Beaver County2
- Butler County2
- Crawford County2
- Erie County2
- Forest County2
- Lawrence County2
- Mercer County2
- Venango County2
- Warren County2
- Dauphin County2
- Lancaster County2
- Lebanon County2
- Northumberland County2
- Schuylkill County2
- Snyder County2
- York County2
- Allegheny County1
- Armstrong County1
- Cambria County1
- Cameron County1
- Clarion County1
- Clearfield County1
- Elk County1
- Fayette County1
- Greene County1
- Indiana County1
- Jefferson County1
- McKean County1
- Somerset County1
- Washington County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Adams County1
- Bedford County1
- Blair County1
- Bradford County1
- Centre County1
- Clinton County1
- Columbia County1
- Cumberland County1
- Franklin County1
22 more counties
- Fulton County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Juniata County1
- Luzerne County1
- Lycoming County1
- Mifflin County1
- Montour County1
- Perry County1
- Potter County1
- Sullivan County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Tioga County1
- Union County1
- Wyoming County1
- Berks County1
- Bucks County1
- Chester County1
- Delaware County1
- Lehigh County1
- Montgomery County1
- Northampton County1
- Philadelphia County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.