Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2008
8 tornado watches in 2008. 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- May3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20083 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 31, 4:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 10:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware and 9 more | 7 hr |
| May 31, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, Lancaster, York | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 10:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Dauphin, Delaware and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:56 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County4
- Chester County4
- Delaware County4
- Lancaster County4
- Philadelphia County4
- York County4
- Fayette County3
- Greene County3
- Bucks County3
- Cumberland County3
- Franklin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Bedford County2
- Fulton County2
- Somerset County2
- Berks County2
- Lehigh County2
- Northampton County2
- Lackawanna County2
- Luzerne County2
- Pike County2
- Wayne County2
- Allegheny County1
- Armstrong County1
- Beaver County1
- Butler County1
- Indiana County1
- Lawrence County1
- Washington County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Bradford County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Wyoming County1
- Dauphin County1
- Lebanon County1
- Carbon County1
- Monroe 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.