Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2019
7 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 15, 20192 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 14, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair and 44 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 9:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 26, 1:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Clinton and 21 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Berks and 58 more | 8 hr |
| May 29, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Cambria and 34 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 31, 2:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron and 29 more | 10 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County5
- Centre County5
- Clinton County5
- Columbia County5
- Cumberland County5
- Dauphin County5
- Franklin County5
- Huntingdon County5
- Juniata County5
- Lancaster County5
- Lebanon County5
- Lycoming County5
- Mifflin County5
- Montour County5
- Northumberland County5
- Perry County5
- Schuylkill County5
- Snyder County5
- Sullivan County5
- Union County5
- York County5
- Bedford County4
- Blair County4
- Cambria County4
- Cameron County4
- Clearfield County4
- Elk County4
- Fulton County4
- Somerset County4
- Berks County4
- Bucks County4
- Chester County4
- Delaware County4
- Montgomery County4
- Philadelphia County4
- Armstrong County3
- Clarion County3
- Fayette County3
- Indiana County3
- Jefferson County3
27 more counties
- Westmoreland County3
- Luzerne County3
- Carbon County3
- Lehigh County3
- Monroe County3
- Northampton County3
- Allegheny County2
- Beaver County2
- Butler County2
- Forest County2
- Lawrence County2
- McKean County2
- Mercer County2
- Potter County2
- Tioga County2
- Venango County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Bradford County2
- Lackawanna County2
- Pike County2
- Susquehanna County2
- Wayne County2
- Wyoming County2
- Crawford County1
- Erie County1
- Greene 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.