Flash Flood, Carbon
- When
- June 19, 1:30 PM EST to 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Carbon County, Northwest Portion
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 40.918, -75.709 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 19, 2002
Slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rain dropped a Doppler Radar estimated three to four inches of rain within two hours across extreme northwest Carbon County. This caused poor drainage and stream flooding, particularly in Packer Township.
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.
Slow moving thunderstorms with heavy rain dropped a Doppler Radar estimated three to four inches of rain within two hours across extreme northwest Carbon County. This caused poor drainage and stream flooding, particularly in Packer Township.
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 19, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 12:30 PM EST, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 130 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2002 DISC: COMBINATION OF SFC OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES FROM EARLIER CONVECTION AND COOLING FROM ALOFT IS HELPING TO INITIATE TSTMS RANDOMLY ACROSS CFA. SFC DEW POINTS IN THE 60S SRN AREAS WITH CONSDIRABLE LO LVL DRYING ACROSS NRN TIER COUNTIES. PRESENT ACTIVITY FORMING ON RIDGE LINE ON MONROE/CARBON COUNTY LINE...ACROSS CENTRAL NJ AND WEAKER ECHOES ON ERN SHORE. THE CONVECTION LATER TODAY WILL NOT BE DISSIPATING AFTER SS AND MAY EVEN INTENSIFY SOMEWHAT THRU 10 PM WITH HEAVY RAIN AT LEAT. FEEL THAT MOST PRECIP WILL BE OVER THIS EVENING BUT WILL CONTINUE MENTION OF A CHC TSTM IN THE EXTREME LOWER END OF THE CFA AT DAYBREAK THU. OTHERWISE STRONG UPPER RIDGE DEVELOPS OVER REGION AND TRIES TO KEEP AREA DRY. HOWEVER...AVN IS LITTLE MORE AGRESSIVE WITH DEVELOPING SYSTEM ALONG THE CAROLINAS. MOST SIG DIFFERENT BEING THE SPLIT IN THE UPPER RIDGE AND AVN ATTEMPTING TO BRING THE MOIST NORTH ALONG THE COAST ON FRI. MAY INTRO SOME PCPN FOR SRN AREAS ON FRI. GETTING THIS OUT BEFORE ZONES IN ORDER TO GEAR UP FOR ANY DEVELOPING STORMS. WILL RESEND AFD WITH CCF DATA APPENDED. NOTHING ON THE MARINE MPO 57 77 59 80 / 50 10 20 20 ABE 60 79 61 82 / 50 10 20 20 RDG 60 79 61 82 / 50 10 20 20 PHL 65 80 63 82 / 50 10 20 30 12N 57 77 59 80 / 50 10 20 20 SMQ 60 79 61 82 / 50 10 20 20 TTN 63 81 63 83 / 50 10 20 20 MIV 65 77 65 77 / 50 10 30 30 ACY 64 71 66 71 / 50 10 30 40 ILG 63 81 63 83 / 50 10 20 20 DOV 65 81 66 82 / 50 10 30 40 GED 65 81 66 82 / 50 10 30 40 ESN 65 81 66 82 / 50 10 30 40 .PHI... DE...NONE. MD...NONE. NJ...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...NONE. EBERWINE/MARTIN (RESENT FOR TEMP/POP DATA)
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 7:37 AM EST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
NJZ007>010-012-015-PAZ061-062-068-069-071-191530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - HEAVY RAINFALL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 837 AM EDT WED JUN 19 2002 ...THUNDERSTORMS AND MORE HEAVY RAIN... HEAVY RAIN FELL OVERNIGHT AND MORE IS MOVING THROUGH THE SAME GENERAL AREA OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY WITH A FEW MORE THUNDERSTORMS IN BUCKS AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SHORT TERM VERY HEAVY RAIN AND...IN AREAS WHERE HEAVY RAIN OCCURRED EARLIER...SOME STREET AND HIGHWAY FLOODING. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT NEARLY 30 MPH. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THEY TOO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY LOCALIZED RAINS. EBERWINE/MARTIN
Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:35 AM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1035 AM EDT WED JUN 19 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0929 AM DELRAN NJ 0.75 IN HAIL
06/19/02 BURLINGTON
0935 AM WILLINGBORO NJ 0.75 IN HAIL
06/19/02 BURLINGTON
0940 AM WESTAMPTON NJ WIND DAMAGE
06/19/02 BURLINGTON A FEW TREES DOWN.Special weather statement, Jun 19, 11:24 AM EST, 2 hours 6 minutes before
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ012>027-PAZ067>071-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1224 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2002 ...POTENTIAL FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS... ANOTHER PERIOD OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS GOING TO OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. STORMS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND AGAIN AROUND RUSH HOUR...BROUGHT VERY HEAVY RAIN TO THE LEHIGH VALLEY WITH RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS OVER TWO INCHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH BURLINGTON COUNTY AND SNAPPED A FEW TREES AND BROUGHT DOWN POWER LINES DROPPED THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL. THE ATMOSPHERE IS UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION...CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/PHI IN SMALL LETTERS. CLICK ON THE RADAR IMAGE AND FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS. EBERWINE/MARTIN
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 11:30 AM EST, 2 hours before
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ012>027-PAZ067>071-191930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 1230 PM EDT WED JUN 19 2002 ...POTENTIAL FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS... ANOTHER PERIOD OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS GOING TO OCCUR THIS AFTERNOON AND ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. STORMS EARLY THIS MORNING...AND AGAIN AROUND RUSH HOUR...BROUGHT VERY HEAVY RAIN TO THE LEHIGH VALLEY WITH RADAR AND SURFACE REPORTS OVER TWO INCHES. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH BURLINGTON COUNTY AND SNAPPED A FEW TREES AND BROUGHT DOWN POWER LINES DROPPED THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL. THE ATMOSPERE IS UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP.
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 144 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:31 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
- Wildfire in Colorado, June 19 to 30, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Iowa, June 19, 2002
- Wildfire in California, June 19 to 22, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 19, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, June 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 19, 2002
- Hail in Iowa, June 19, 2002
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, June 19, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, June 2002
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: 5308211.