Flash Flood, Monroe
- When
- July 25, 3:30 PM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monroe County, Southeast Portion
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 41.058, -75.339 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, July 25, 2001
Thunderstorms with torrential downpours dropped as much as a Doppler Radar storm total estimate of 6 inches of rain in southeast Monroe County. This caused flooding of roadways and some of the smaller creeks in the county.
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.
Thunderstorms with torrential downpours dropped as much as a Doppler Radar storm total estimate of 6 inches of rain in southeast Monroe County. This caused flooding of roadways and some of the smaller creeks in the county. Near East Stroudsburg and Stroudsburg Pennsylvania State Route 191 was impassable and U.S. Route 209 had water covering the roadway. A cooperative observer in East Stroudsburg reported 3.8 inches of rain fell between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. EDT. No serious injuries were reported.
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 Jul 25, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 330 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001 HEAT WAVE/SOUPY AIRMASS WANING AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NORTHWEST. QUITE UNSTABLE SOUTH OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON WITH LI/S APPROACHING -6 C AND CAPES 2500 J/KG. PRECIPITABLE H20 RUNNING HIGH AROUND 2.00 INCHES. THE MORNING SOUNDING OUT OF KPIT VERIFIES THIS. HEAT INDICES RUNNING AROUND 100 DEGS ATTM AND WILL ALLOW HEAT WARNING TO EXPIRE AT 800 PM THIS EVENING. WEAK WAVES WITH MINOR SURFACE REFLECTION TO MOVE ALONG FRONT THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ALTHOUGH SURFACE REFLECTIONS ARE MINOR...LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE WILL INCREASE. THIS COMBINED WITH THE HIGH PW/S WILL HELP INDUCE PERIODS OF INTENSE RAINFALL FOR THE CWA STARTING TONIGHT AND CONTINUING TOMORROW. SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT SAGS SOUTH OF CWA BEHIND SECOND WEAK WAVE THURSDAY NIGHT. WILL END PRECIP ACROSS THE NORTH AT THIS TIME...BUT CONTINUE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA INTO EARLY 4TH PERIOD. AFTER FROPA...GRIDDED H8 TEMPS DROP A GOOD 5 TO 9 DEGS C WITH NORTHERN AREAS BOTTOMING OUT NEAR 9 DEGS C. THIS WILL HELP PUSH TEMPERATURES BACK INTO THE 70S AND LOWER 80S THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE EXTENDED PORTION WILL INDICATE A CHANGE FOR SATURDAY WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTH AS ABOVE MENTIONED COLD FRONT SITS JUST TO OUR SOUTH. WITH RETURN FLOW AFFECTING THE CWA SUNDAY AND MONDAY WILL KEEP POPS GOING. REST OF EXTENDED WILL BE DRY. .PHI... DE...HEAT WARNING UNTIL 800 PM FOR ZONE DEZ001. ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST. MD...NONE. NJ...HEAT WARNING UNTIL 800 PM FOR ZONES NJZ015...NJZ017>019. ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST. PA...HEAT WARNING UNTIL 800 PM FOR ZONES PAZ067>071. KRUZDLO
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:28 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
- Flash Flood in Missouri, July 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Georgia, July 25, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Montana, July 25, 2001
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 25, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 25 to 26, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 25, 2001
More
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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: 5260498.