Flash Flood, Hunterdon
- When
- June 17, 6:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Hunterdon County, Countywide
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 40.567, -74.912 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in New Jersey, June 17, 2001
The remnants of Tropical Storm Allison produced showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain during the morning of the 17th. This caused small stream and poor drainage flooding in the county, but no serious injuries were reported.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Allison produced showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain during the morning of the 17th. This caused small stream and poor drainage flooding in the county, but no serious injuries were reported. Storm totals included 4.33 inches in Wertsville, 3.68 inches in Flemington and 3.40 inches in Sidney. The low pressure system that was the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison, was very persistent and slow moving. It moved from northeast North Carolina the afternoon of the 15th to near Norfolk the morning of the 16th to the Virginia Capes during the afternoon of the 16th and just east of Atlantic City during the morning of the 17th.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 17, 2:15 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 2:15 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
315 AM EDT SUN JUN 17 2001
FAVORING AVN/S MOVEMENT OF THE REMNANTS OF ALLISON. RADAR INDICATES
CENTER IS NEAR THE COAST E OF SBY. IT HAS BEEN DRIFTING NNE LAST 24
HRS AND SO APPEARS ADVANCING MID LVL TROF HAS JUST CAUGHT IT. WILL
DISCARD THE ETA. COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH THE FA TODAY
AND HELP LIFT THE SYSTEM NE ALONG OR JUST E OF NJ COASTLINE AND THEN
INTO NEW ENGLAND. WILL EXTEND THE FFA THROUGH THE AM HOURS...AND
PUSH IT A LTL FURTHER E. IF MORE BANDING OCCURS BEFORE SYSTEM PASSES
AND COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH...MAY BE MORE FLOODING. THEN DRY FCST
THROUGH MON NIGHT AT LEAST. PUSHED SOME TEMPS DOWN TODAY A LTL WITH
THE RAIN AND CLOUDS...THEN GUIDANCE TEMPS ACCEPTED.
ON MARINE...SCA TO STAY UP ALNG OCEAN FNT.
.PHI...FLASH FLOOD WATCH THROUGH THIS MORNING FOR...
PAZ054-055-060>062-067>069-NJZ001-007>010-012-015>019-
MDZ008-DE Z001.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR COASTAL WATERS.
MPDThe radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:01 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
- Heat in Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in New Jersey in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in New Jersey, June 2001
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: 5253970.