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Flash Flood — Lancaster, PA

Jun 28, 2025

A warm front moving across central Pennsylvania during the morning hours of June 28, 2025 with a surface cold front stationed in the Great Lake region allowed for much of central Pennsylvania to reside in the warm sector during the early afternoon and evening hours. Increasing instability, shear, and moisture due to this residence time primed the atmosphere ahead of a prefrontal trough allowing for ample lift to produce showers and thunderstorms. Thunderstorms in western Pennsylvania during the

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1266689). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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