2,274 first-hand accounts of flood events in Pennsylvania, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A slow moving cold front and a moist unstable airmass combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms and flash flooding across eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front and a moist unstable airmass combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms and flash flooding across eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front and a moist unstable airmass combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms and flash flooding across eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
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 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 deepening low pressure system, originating from the southern plains, moved towards the western Great Lakes on Wednesday March 9th. A wintry mix of precipitation changed over to all rain as the warm front associated with this system pushed across the region on Wednesday…
Read the full account →The remnants of what once was Hurricane Gordon dropped heavy rain across southeast Pennsylvania during the late afternoon and early evening of the 19th. It caused poor drainage flooding in low-lying areas.
Read the full account →A nearly stationary thunderstorm produced extremely heavy rain across southern York county during the evening of June 13. Maximum rainfall estimates from doppler radar indicated 8 to 10 inches fell in the town of Fawn Grove, with 5 to 6 inches in the Sunnyburn area.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall spread into northern Pennsylvania as an intense area of low pressure tracked from southern Indiana Tuesday morning on the 17th to northeast of Lake Huron on the morning of the 18th and through eastern Canada Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Read the full account →A thunderstorm complex, with origins from the Midwest and Ohio Valley, produced a quick one to two inches of rainfall over portions of the Laurel Highlands and south-central Mountains during the early morning.
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 →A strong Atlantic coast storm brought heavy rain with amounts between 1 and 3 inches. A few locations received more than 3 inches. In addition, snowmelt was causing high stream flows before the rain started late on the 27th. Many roads were closed due to flash flooding.
Read the full account →The remnants of Sandy brought a variety of weather impacts to western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and Garrett county Maryland as the storm made landfall and interacted with a cold front essentially right over the region.
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 →Widespread flooding of small streams and creeks continued into the early morning hours of the 20th before the water receded. Most of the damage was related to ice jam flooding.
Read the full account →A slow moving cold front and a moist unstable airmass combined to produce scattered severe thunderstorms and flash flooding across eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania.
Read the full account →Heavy rainfall from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee produced widespread flooding, flash flooding and river flooding mainly near and to the east of the Susquehanna Valley from September 4-10.
Read the full account →Stewart Run went out of its banks. Flooding was also reported along Pursley Creek near Oak Forest. Flash flooding occurred in Holbrook. Several cars were flooded and swept into buildings and other cars. A cabin along Hargus Creek was swept 0.5 miles downstream.
Read the full account →A slow moving warm front pushed northward across northeast Pennsylvania late in the afternoon on April 25th. A warm and relatively moist air mass covered the region, with showers and storms developing, especially in the unstable air south of the frontal boundary, where breaks in…
Read the full account →A slow moving warm front pushed northward across northeast Pennsylvania late in the afternoon on April 25th. A warm and relatively moist air mass covered the region, with showers and storms developing, especially in the unstable air south of the frontal boundary, where breaks in…
Read the full account →A slow moving warm front pushed northward across northeast Pennsylvania late in the afternoon on April 25th. A warm and relatively moist air mass covered the region, with showers and storms developing, especially in the unstable air south of the frontal boundary, where breaks in…
Read the full account →An area of low pressure moved up from the Mississippi River Valley into Ohio and western Pennsylvania. The storm system had adequate moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which increased rainfall rates to over an inch and a half per hour.
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