Heavy Rain, Berks
- When
- August 3, 5:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Berks County, Central Portion
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.416, -75.926 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, August 3, 2000
Heavy rains of between 1 and 2 inches caused poor drainage flooding primarily in central and western Berks County during the early evening of the 3rd. Most of the rain fell in about an hour.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 PHI wrote it up.
Heavy rains of between 1 and 2 inches caused poor drainage flooding primarily in central and western Berks County during the early evening of the 3rd. Most of the rain fell in about an hour. Several cars were stuck in high water in and around Reading. Storm totals included 1.86 inches in Bethel, 1.65 inches in Hamburg, 1.40 inches in Lincoln Park and 1.37 inches in Reading.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Dust Storm in Nevada, August 3, 2000
- Heat in Texas, August 3, 2000
- Flood in Illinois, August 3, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, August 3, 2000
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 3, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Massachusetts, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 3, 2000
- Hail in Florida, August 3, 2000
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 3, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, August 3, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, August 3, 2000
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 2000
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: 5170905.