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Flash Flood — Hunterdon, NJ

Oct 19, 1996

Rain, very heavy at times toward noon on the 19th, caused considerable highway and poor drainage flooding as well as flooding of some of the smaller creeks in Hunterdon County. Damage estimates were around one million dollars. Evacuations occurred along the Raritan River in Califon. Cars were stalling out in flood waters around Flemington. The hardest hit municipalities were Clinton, Lambertville, Milford and Readington. The school in Lambertville sustained extensive damage when several inch

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 5577593). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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