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Pennsylvania Flood Stories

2,274 first-hand accounts of flood events in Pennsylvania, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flood$10K damage

Westmoreland, PA · Jul 1, 2013

An upper level disturbance produced showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall across western Pennsylvania and the northern West Virginia Panhandle. Flooding of roadways and areas of poor drainage was reported.

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Flood$10K damage

Westmoreland, PA · Jul 1, 2013

An upper level disturbance produced showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall across western Pennsylvania and the northern West Virginia Panhandle. Flooding of roadways and areas of poor drainage was reported.

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Flood$10K damage

Jefferson, PA · Jul 2, 2013

An upper level disturbance produced showers and thunderstorms with heavy rainfall across western Pennsylvania and the northern West Virginia Panhandle. Flooding of roadways and areas of poor drainage was reported.

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Flash Flood

Fayette, PA · Jul 28, 1999

On July 28th, thunderstorms produced a macroburst which blew across portions of Western Pennsylvania. the macroburst started at around 9 AM EST and marched across the region through the late morning hours.

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Flash Flood

Luzerne, PA · Nov 16, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Wyoming, PA · Nov 16, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Lackawanna, PA · Nov 16, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Lackawanna, PA · Nov 16, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flash Flood

Cumberland, PA · Aug 12, 2010

Torrential thunderstorm rains over a short duration produced flash flooding across the lower Susquehanna Valley during the mid to late afternoon. The very heavy rain caused significant flash flooding in downtown Harrisburg, northern York County and southern Adams County.

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Flash Flood

Susquehanna, PA · Sep 30, 2010

An upper level low pressure system interacting with abundant tropical moisture from the remnants of what had been Tropical Storm Nicole dropped 2 to 7 inches of rain across northeast Pennsylvania.

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Flood

Wyoming, PA · Nov 17, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flood

Bradford, PA · Nov 16, 2006

A strong low pressure system tracked northeast from Kentucky to western New York state during the daylight hours on Thursday the 16th. A large fetch of Gulf and Atlantic moisture was pulled northward ahead of the cold front, which produced a squall line of thunderstorms.

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Flood

Bradford, PA · Mar 15, 2007

A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed northern Pennsylvania from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.

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Flood

Bradford, PA · Mar 15, 2007

A widespread rainfall occurred from March 15th to 16th as a slow-moving cold front dropped south from Canada and crossed northern Pennsylvania from the evening of the 14th to the morning of the 15th.

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Flood

Union, PA · Dec 1, 2010

Widespread heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches produced extensive flooding across Central Pennsylvania for the first three days of December 2010. The heavy rain fell in two distinct periods with the first round of 1-2 inches falling by the evening of November 30th.

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Flood

Northumberland, PA · Dec 1, 2010

Widespread heavy rainfall of 2 to 4 inches produced extensive flooding across Central Pennsylvania for the first three days of December 2010. The heavy rain fell in two distinct periods with the first round of 1-2 inches falling by the evening of November 30th.

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Flash Flood$75K damage

Erie, PA · Aug 10, 2009

A cold front was located northwest of the region during the afternoon and evening hours of the 10th. A warm and unstable airmass caused showers and thunderstorms to develop shortly after noontime and persist through the afternoon and evening hours.

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Flash Flood$40K damage

Clinton, PA · Jul 23, 2009

Slow moving thunderstorms along a nearly stationary cold front produced locally heavy rainfall in a short duration, resulting in flash flooding across portions of the Lower Susquehanna Valley.

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Flash Flood

Fayette, PA · Jun 15, 2025

Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.

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Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Jun 15, 2025

Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.

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Flash Flood

Northumberland, PA · Jul 16, 2021

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and early evening of July 16, 2021, in a very warm, humid airmass just south of a stalled frontal boundary that was draped across northern Pennsylvania.

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Flash Flood

McKean, PA · Jul 17, 2021

Scattered showers and thunderstorms develop during the early afternoon hours of July 17, 2021 across western Pennsylvania and in the Lower Susquehanna Valley in an anomalously humid airmass ahead of an approaching cold front.

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Flash Flood

Sullivan, PA · Jul 16, 2021

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and early evening of July 16, 2021, in a very warm, humid airmass just south of a stalled frontal boundary that was draped across northern Pennsylvania.

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Flash Flood

Tioga, PA · Jul 17, 2021

Scattered showers and thunderstorms develop during the early afternoon hours of July 17, 2021 across western Pennsylvania and in the Lower Susquehanna Valley in an anomalously humid airmass ahead of an approaching cold front.

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