Flash Flood, Indiana
- When
- August 21, 4:15 AM EST to 6:00 AM EST
- Where
- Indiana County, Indiana
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Coordinates
- 40.652, -79.087 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 21, 1996
Marsh Run went out of its banks and flooded nearby roads in Indiana. Some roads were closed.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PBZ wrote it up.
Marsh Run went out of its banks and flooded nearby roads in Indiana. Some roads were closed. A few basements were also flooded in Indiana.
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 96 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:15 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flood in Kansas, August 21 to 22, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Wisconsin, August 21, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 21, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, August 21, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, August 21, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, August 21, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, August 21, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, August 21, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, August 21, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, August 21, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, August 21, 1996
- Hail in North Dakota, August 21, 1996
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5574417.