2,274 first-hand accounts of flood events in Pennsylvania, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Major damage occurred along Crook Creek and Two Lick Creek in Homer City, Clymer, and Creekside. Approximately 300 homes sustained substantial basement flooding. Ten homes had water into the first floor. A few businesses were damaged.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary thunderstorm over northern Columbia County produced heavy rain and localized flash flooding during the early morning hours on the 2nd. The flooding was confined to the Sugarloaf Township/Benton area.
Read the full account →A deep upper trough and low pressure moving across the Ohio Valley pushed warm and humid air northward ahead of a cold front moving east with the surface low.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was the focus for showers and thunderstorms to develop and train across portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and western Pennsylvania producing flash flooding and flooding.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was the focus for showers and thunderstorms to develop and train across portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and western Pennsylvania producing flash flooding and flooding.
Read the full account →At 538 PM EDT on 17th, roads flooded, in Warsaw Twp, 7 miles north of Brookville after 3.3 inches of rain. By 6 PM, there was widespread road and stream flooding. At least 5 people were rescued from their vehicles. By 8 PM, Rockdale had 4" of rain.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm complex that developed in conjunction with a strengthening surface low over northern Indiana propagated westward towards the region late on the 12th.
Read the full account →An outflow boundary situated over interstate 80 became the focus for thunderstorm development as several upper level disturbances rounded a flattening ridge over the plains.
Read the full account →Major flash flooding occurred in the South Hills section of Pittsburgh, along Saw Mill Run Boulevard and Route 88, where flood waters quickly rose up to 5 feet deep. Seven cars were stranded. A nearby auto service business was flooded.
Read the full account →Low pressure moving across the Upper Ohio Valley helped initiate showers and storms, some of which produced heavy rain, gusty wind, and isolated large hail across the region on the 5th.
Read the full account →Low pressure moving across the Upper Ohio Valley helped initiate showers and storms, some of which produced heavy rain, gusty wind, and isolated large hail across the region on the 5th.
Read the full account →Moist antecedent conditions in conjunction with a passing shortwave helped to produce yet another round of thunderstorms with heavy rain across southwestern Pennsylvania. Southern Allegheny county, Pennsylvania was hardest hit, once again.
Read the full account →A low pressure system moved northeast from the Ohio Valley to the Great Lakes and strengthened. Heavy rain moved into northeast Pennsylvania late in the evening on the 10th, and continued into the overnight hours on the 11th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a wavy frontal boundary across parts of eastern Ohio and much of southwest Pennsylvania the afternoon of the 14th into the early morning of the 15th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a wavy frontal boundary across parts of eastern Ohio and much of southwest Pennsylvania the afternoon of the 14th into the early morning of the 15th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed along a wavy frontal boundary across parts of eastern Ohio and much of southwest Pennsylvania the afternoon of the 14th into the early morning of the 15th.
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