Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2022
6 tornado watches in 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 23, 20221 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Beaver, Greene, Washington | 7 hr |
| May 3, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland | 7 hr |
| May 20, 11:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Carbon and 28 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fayette, Greene, Washington | 5 hr |
| Jun 16, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:40 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Armstrong, Butler, Cameron, Clarion, Elk, Forest and 7 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greene County3
- Washington County3
- Allegheny County2
- Beaver County2
- Fayette County2
- Adams County2
- Bedford County2
- Blair County2
- Carbon County2
- Centre County2
- Columbia County2
- Cumberland County2
- Dauphin County2
- Franklin County2
- Fulton County2
- Huntingdon County2
- Juniata County2
- Lackawanna County2
- Lancaster County2
- Lebanon County2
- Luzerne County2
- Mifflin County2
- Monroe County2
- Montour County2
- Northumberland County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Schuylkill County2
- Snyder County2
- Union County2
- York County2
- Cameron County2
- Elk County2
- McKean County2
- Potter County2
- Warren County2
- Westmoreland County1
- Berks County1
- Bucks County1
- Chester County1
24 more counties
- Delaware County1
- Lehigh County1
- Montgomery County1
- Northampton County1
- Philadelphia County1
- Bradford County1
- Cambria County1
- Clearfield County1
- Clinton County1
- Lycoming County1
- Somerset County1
- Sullivan County1
- Susquehanna County1
- Tioga County1
- Wayne County1
- Wyoming County1
- Armstrong County1
- Butler County1
- Clarion County1
- Forest County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Mercer County1
- Venango 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.