2,274 first-hand accounts of flood events in Pennsylvania, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Gordon came ashore along the central Gulf Coast on the night of September 4th. The tropical cyclone dissipated over Missouri by the night of September 7th.
Read the full account →A backdoor cold front slipped southward across central Pennsylvania during the afternoon and evening hours of June 9, 2021, generating scattered showers and thunderstorms in a warm and humid airmass ahead of it.
Read the full account →Scattered showers and storms developed in a warm, humid airmass with moderate CAPE and shear ahead of an approaching cold front on September 15, 2021. One particularly strong storm produced widespread wind damage in Centre County, with isolated reports of wind damage elsewhere.
Read the full account →With very moist profiles and little wind shear, the primary concern for the day was heavy rainfall and localized flash flooding potential with thunderstorms. A flash flood watch was issued for a portion of our region, mainly the higher elevations.
Read the full account →On the Monongahela River, Charleroi reached flood stage (28 ft) at 6 AM EDT on 14th, crested at 28.7 at 10 AM EDT, and fell below flood stage at 230 PM EDT on 14th.
Read the full account →Slow-moving storms fired in the late afternoon and evening hours of May 14th in a pattern of high moisture, weak overall flow, and weak vorticity advection. The slow storm movement resulted in localized heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Low pressure moving slowly across West Virginia produced widespread heavy rain and flooding across northern West Virginia, Garrett county Maryland, and western Pennsylvania.
Read the full account →Scattered storms developed in a warm, humid airmass to the south of a stalled frontal boundary over southern New York state during the late afternoon and early evening of August 27, 2021. A couple of these storms produced wind damage in the Lower Susquehanna Valley.
Read the full account →After heavy thunderstorm rains pounded the region and flooded the Cheat River, a tributary of the Monongahela River. The Monongahela River also flooded along part of its stretch. The river crested between 1 and 1.5 feet above flood stage at Lock 4 Charleroi and Lock 3 Elizabeth.
Read the full account →On the Monongahela River, Charleroi reached flood stage (28 ft) at 6 AM EDT on 14th, crested at 28.7 at 10 AM EDT, and fell below flood stage at 230 PM EDT on 14th.
Read the full account →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 Lehigh County. So many roads were barricaded that getting from one place to another was described as impossible.
Read the full account →Rain, heavy at times, caused flash flooding of numerous streams within Berks County during the morning of the 19th. Many roads were closed. The heaviest rain fell close to daybreak.
Read the full account →A series of thunderstorms with torrential downpours caused the flash flooding of some of the creeks in central Northampton County. A 47-year-old woman escaped death by using her cellular phone after her vehicle stalled in the rising flood waters on Bushkill Drive in Forks…
Read the full account →In addition to the high winds, the line of thunderstorms brought torrential downpours and caused urban flooding and flash flooding of smaller streams in southern Lehigh, eastern Berks and northern Montgomery Counties.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Isabel produced strong power outage producing winds, moderate tidal flooding along the Delaware River and stream flooding in Chester County. Isabel made landfall as a hurricane near Drum Inlet, North Carolina around 100 p.m.
Read the full account →On the Monongahela River, Charleroi rose above its 28 ft flood stage at 1 AM on the 7th, crested at 30.2 ft at 7 AM on the 7th, and fell below flood stage at 10 PM on the 7th.
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