Flash Flood, Carbon
- When
- June 12, 2:00 AM EST to 3:00 AM EST
- Where
- Carbon County, Central 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 12, 2003
Thunderstorms with torrential downpours produced flash flooding of streams in central Carbon County. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 3 and 4 inches, most of which fell within two hours.
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 produced flash flooding of streams in central Carbon County. Doppler Radar storm total estimates reached between 3 and 4 inches, most of which fell within two hours. The heaviest rain fell in Lehigh and Penn Forest Townships.
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 11, 3:30 PM EST, 10 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:30 PM EST, 10 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 430 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2003 FEELS LIKE SUMMER TODAY...TEMPS IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S...DPS IN THE MID 60S TO AROUND 70...THUNDERSTORMS FIRING UP ACROSS MONMOUTH...OCEAN AND SOME ADJACENT COUNTIES. WILL REMAIN SOUPY TONIGHT. APPROACHING COLD FRONT GETS HUNG UP OVER THE REGION TOMORROW. MOST OF THE CWA(SOUTHERN 2/3RDS) DOES APPEAR TO REMAIN IN THE WARM SECTOR. WILL NEED TO WATCH FOR MORE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TOMORROW...MORE SO BECAUSE OF THE PROXIMITY OF THE FRONT. CLOUD COVER WILL BE AN ISSUE AND WILL AFFECT INSTABILITY. ETA CAPES ARE COMPARATIVELY HIGH ACROSS SERN PA...SRN NJ...AND THE DELMARVA REGION. THIS BEING FUELED BY NEAR 90 DEGREE TEMPS. CURRENT THINKING...TEMPS ARE OVER DONE. DEPENDING WHERE THE FRONT ALIGNS ITSELF TOMORROW...WILL HAVE TO MONITOR HELICITY VALUES. PROHIBITING EXPLOSIVE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE AN UNFAVORABLE H25 JET STRUCTURE AND A LACK OF ANY SHORTWAVE. THE GFS IS A LITTLE MORE OPTIMISTIC THIS WEEKEND(SATURDAY)...LESS CLOUDS AS AN ONSHORE FLOW IS DELAYED. BASED ON BOUNDARY LAYER WIND FIELDS...WILL ADD LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE ON SUNDAY ACROSS THE SRN 2/3RDS OF THE CWA. FCSTID = 29 MPO 60 73 58 69 / 40 50 80 60 ABE 64 79 62 75 / 40 50 80 60 RDG 64 79 62 75 / 40 50 70 60 PHL 70 82 68 80 / 40 50 60 60 12N 60 77 58 73 / 40 50 80 60 SMQ 67 81 65 77 / 40 50 60 60 TTN 68 82 66 79 / 40 50 60 60 MIV 67 81 65 78 / 40 50 40 40 ACY 68 76 66 73 / 40 50 40 40 ILG 68 82 66 81 / 40 50 60 60 DOV 68 80 66 80 / 40 50 40 40 GED 68 82 66 81 / 40 50 40 40 ESN 68 81 66 79 / 40 50 40 40 .PHI... DE...NONE. MD...NONE. NJ...NONE. PA...NONE. KRUZDLO
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 4:30 AM EST, 21 hours 30 minutes before
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-111130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 530 AM EDT WED JUN 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...DELAWARE...THE NORTHERN MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE...AND NEW JERSEY EXCLUDING THE FIVE NORTHEAST COUNTIES. .DAY ONE...TODAY THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN, OKLAHOMA HAS INDICATED THAT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON. IOVINO
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 11, 10:57 PM EST, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
1157 PM EDT WED JUN 11 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1037 PM 1 SE ST. MICHAELS MD WIND DAMAGE
06/11/03 TALBOT TREE LIMBS DOWN
GSSThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 and Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, June 12, 2003
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Flood in Pennsylvania, June 12 to 13, 2003
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, June 12, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 2003
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Virginia, June 12, 2003
- Hail in Nebraska, June 12, 2003
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: 5365437.