Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2017
3 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 1, 20172 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 1, 12:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 2:12 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 22, 12:23 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradford, Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean and 5 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bradford County2
- Cameron County2
- Clinton County2
- Elk County2
- Lycoming County2
- McKean County2
- Potter County2
- Sullivan County2
- Susquehanna County2
- Tioga County2
- Warren County2
- Allegheny County1
- Armstrong County1
- Beaver County1
- Butler County1
- Clarion County1
- Crawford County1
- Erie County1
- Fayette County1
- Forest County1
- Greene County1
- Indiana County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Mercer County1
- Venango County1
- Washington County1
- Westmoreland County1
- Bedford County1
- Blair County1
- Cambria County1
- Centre County1
- Clearfield County1
- Columbia County1
- Fulton County1
- Huntingdon County1
- Juniata County1
- Lackawanna County1
- Luzerne County1
- Mifflin 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.