Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, February 18 to 19, 2000

Name: Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, February 18 to 19, 2000
Start: 2000-02-18T23:40
End: 2000-02-19T01:00
Location: Pennsylvania

February 18 to 19, 2000 · NWS CTP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

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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.

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 119 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:41 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flash Flood, Somerset

When: February 18, 11:40 PM EST to February 19, 1:00 AM EST
Where: Somerset County, Meyersdale
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.972, -79.028 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Heavy rains caused flooding of a number of roads in Somerset County. Emergency officials reported several motorists were stranded in their vehicles when mudslides closed a road. One family in the Myersdale area was evacuated from their home in the bucket of a neighbor's backhoe when waters surrounded their house.

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

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, February 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: 5132234.