Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2013
5 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 19, 20131 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bradford, Carbon, Centre, Chester and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin and 10 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Columbia and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 7, 8:56 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Centre and 34 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County4
- Chester County4
- Cumberland County4
- Dauphin County4
- Franklin County4
- Huntingdon County4
- Juniata County4
- Lancaster County4
- Lebanon County4
- Mifflin County4
- Perry County4
- York County4
- Berks County3
- Carbon County3
- Columbia County3
- Fulton County3
- Lehigh County3
- Monroe County3
- Montour County3
- Northampton County3
- Northumberland County3
- Schuylkill County3
- Snyder County3
- Union County3
- Delaware County3
- Montgomery County3
- Philadelphia County3
- Bradford County2
- Centre County2
- Clinton County2
- Lackawanna County2
- Luzerne County2
- Lycoming County2
- Pike County2
- Sullivan County2
- Susquehanna County2
- Tioga County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyoming County2
- Bucks County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20122014
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.