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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.

Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 9, 2015

Outflow boundaries from convection earlier in the day helped to spark additional thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening on the 9th ahead of an approaching cold front.

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Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 9, 2015

Outflow boundaries from convection earlier in the day helped to spark additional thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening on the 9th ahead of an approaching cold front.

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Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 9, 2015

Outflow boundaries from convection earlier in the day helped to spark additional thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening on the 9th ahead of an approaching cold front.

Read the full account →
Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 9, 2015

Outflow boundaries from convection earlier in the day helped to spark additional thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening on the 9th ahead of an approaching cold front.

Read the full account →
Flash Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 9, 2015

Outflow boundaries from convection earlier in the day helped to spark additional thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening on the 9th ahead of an approaching cold front.

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Flash Flood

Montgomery, PA · Jun 26, 2015

A cluster of showers and thunderstorms formed along gust front and sea breeze front boundaries in southeastern Pennsylvania during the late evening of the 26th and had little movement before they dissipated early on the 27th.

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Flash Flood

Monroe, PA · Jun 30, 2015

In addition to the severe weather, multiple thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding in the Lehigh Valley and Poconos on the afternoon and evening of the 30th. The flash flooding in the Poconos persisted into July 1st.

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Flood

Snyder, PA · Mar 12, 2015

With the milder temperatures beginning on March 11th���some minor flooding was reported across the HSA, mainly due to ice jams.||Later on Thursday March 12th an ice jam was reported by the public along Penns Creek upstream from the Route 104 Bridge, and a flood advisory…

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Flood

Huntingdon, PA · Mar 11, 2015

With the milder temperatures beginning on March 11th���some minor flooding was reported across the HSA, mainly due to ice jams.||Later on Thursday March 12th an ice jam was reported by the public along Penns Creek upstream from the Route 104 Bridge, and a flood advisory…

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Flood

Union, PA · Mar 12, 2015

With the milder temperatures beginning on March 11th���some minor flooding was reported across the HSA, mainly due to ice jams.||Later on Thursday March 12th an ice jam was reported by the public along Penns Creek upstream from the Route 104 Bridge, and a flood advisory…

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Flood

Delaware, PA · Apr 20, 2015

An area of moderate to heavy rain with isolated thunderstorms moved through southeast Pennsylvania during the first half of the day on the 20th. Rainfall amounts through the morning of the 20th averaged 1.5 to 2.25 inches.

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Flood

Philadelphia, PA · Apr 20, 2015

An area of moderate to heavy rain with isolated thunderstorms moved through southeast Pennsylvania during the first half of the day on the 20th. Rainfall amounts through the morning of the 20th averaged 1.5 to 2.25 inches.

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Flood

Jefferson, PA · Sep 29, 2015

Moisture from the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic was pulled northward over the region through the 29th by an upper trough over the Lower Mississippi Valley and a cut-off low off of the Southeastern U.S. coast.

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Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 29, 2015

Moisture from the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic was pulled northward over the region through the 29th by an upper trough over the Lower Mississippi Valley and a cut-off low off of the Southeastern U.S. coast.

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Flood

Allegheny, PA · Sep 29, 2015

Moisture from the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic was pulled northward over the region through the 29th by an upper trough over the Lower Mississippi Valley and a cut-off low off of the Southeastern U.S. coast.

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Flood

Westmoreland, PA · Sep 29, 2015

Moisture from the Gulf and Mid-Atlantic was pulled northward over the region through the 29th by an upper trough over the Lower Mississippi Valley and a cut-off low off of the Southeastern U.S. coast.

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Flood

Allegheny, PA · Jul 8, 2015

Southwesterly flow and moderate instability ahead of an approaching cold front helped to spawn showers and thunderstorms, some of which were severe, across the northern West Virginia pan-handle, and western Pennsylvania on the 7th.

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Flood

Allegheny, PA · Jul 8, 2015

Southwesterly flow and moderate instability ahead of an approaching cold front helped to spawn showers and thunderstorms, some of which were severe, across the northern West Virginia pan-handle, and western Pennsylvania on the 7th.

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