Name: Flood in Pennsylvania, July 23, 2003
Start: 2003-07-23T13:00
End: 2003-07-23T23:00
Location: Pennsylvania

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
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 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 23, 2:59 AM EST, 10 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 2:59 AM EST, 10 hours 1 minute before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
400 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003

UPPR TROF REMAINS ACRS THE CWA TODAY THRU THURSDAY NIGHT EJECTING
EAST ON FRIDAY.  AMS REMAINS MOIST AND UNSTBL THRU THEN.  BEST
FORCING FOR TDA IS ACRS SERN AND ERN OH INTO WRN PA.  WL CONT WITH
FFA FOR TDA AND GO WITH LKLY POPS EAST 2/3DS OF THE AREA.  NWRN OH
WITH GO WITH CHC POPS.

.CLE...
OH...FLOOD WATCH NE OH TODAY OHZ012>014-022-023-032-033-089
PA...FLOOD WATCH NW PA TODAY PAZ001>003

TK

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 6:12 AM EST, 6 hours 48 minutes before

OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-231315-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
712 AM EDT WED JUL 23 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO
AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AND TONIGHT.  WHILE THEY ARE NOT
EXPECTED TO BY SEVERE...ANY ADDITIONAL RAINFALL ACROSS NORTHEAST
OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA WOULD LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

The radar

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Event by event

1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Crawford

When: July 23, 1:00 PM EST to 11:00 PM EST
Where: Crawford forecast zone
Property damage: $100,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 41.685, -80.106 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Thunderstorms moved across Crawford County and dumped one to locally two inches of rain on already saturated ground. Widespread urban and lowland flooding continued across the county. Many streams and small creeks remained in flood and around a dozen roads had to be closed. Basement flooding damaged dozens of homes.

What these are

Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Pennsylvania, July 2003

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: 5375462.