Flood, Monroe
- When
- January 14, 6:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST
- Where
- Monroe forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.983, -77.800
Flood in Pennsylvania, January 14, 2005
m. m.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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.
A slow moving cold front with waves of low pressure produced heavy rain across Monroe County during the first half of the day (mainly between 1 a.m. and 8 a.m. EST) before it changed back to snow before it ended later that morning. Melting from the previous weeks' snow and ice contributed to the runoff. Storm totals averaged between one and two inches. This caused poor drainage flooding and led to flooding along some of the creeks in the county. The Brodhead Creek overflowed across Pennsylvania State Route 191 in Analomink (Stroud Township). Wet basements were reported throughout the Poconos. Specific storm totals included 2.01 inches in Mount Pocono. After the rain changed to snow, up to three inches of new snow accumulated with the highest reported amount (3 inches) in Tobyhanna. The cold front moved from the central Great Lakes during the morning of the 13th slowly east and reached Ohio during the early evening on the 13th, central Pennsylvania at 1 a.m. EST on the 14th, eastern New Jersey at 7 a.m. EST on the 14th and just about cleared Cape Cod, Massachusetts at 1 p.m. EST on the 14th. The heavy rain and snow accompanied the cold front and fell for several hours behind 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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 14, 5:45 AM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 5:45 AM EST, 15 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 6:20 AM EST, 23 hours 40 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 620 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005 DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-141200- ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-BERKS PA-BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ- CAPE MAY NJ-CARBON PA-CAROLINE MD-CECIL MD-CHESTER PA- COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-DELAWARE PA- DELAWARE BEACHES DE-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-HUNTERDON NJ- INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT MD-KENT DE-LEHIGH PA-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ- MONROE PA-MONTGOMERY PA-MORRIS NJ-NEW CASTLE DE-NORTHAMPTON PA- NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-PHILADELPHIA PA-QUEEN ANNES MD- SALEM NJ-SOMERSET NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-SUSSEX NJ-TALBOT MD- WARREN NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLENTOWN...ATLANTIC CITY...BETHLEHEM... CAMDEN...DOVER...NEW BRUNSWICK...NEWARK...PERTH AMBOY... PHILADELPHIA...READING...TRENTON...VINELAND AND WILMINGTON 620 AM EST THU JAN 13 2005 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... A DENSE FOG ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED FOR MUCH OF THE REGION. PLEASE REFER TO OUR PHLNPWPHI(KPHI WWUS71) FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. ALONG WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN, WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO A POSSIBILITY. PLEASE REFER TO OUR SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT, PHLSPSPHI(KPHI WWUS81), FOR FURTHER DETAILS. OTHERWISE, NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. KRUZDLO/NYY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 3:45 AM EST, 2 hours 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 345 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005 DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-055- 060>062-067>071-141700- ATLANTIC NJ-ATLANTIC COASTAL CAPE MAY NJ-BERKS PA-BUCKS PA-CAMDEN NJ- CAPE MAY NJ-CARBON PA-CAROLINE MD-CECIL MD-CHESTER PA- COASTAL ATLANTIC NJ-COASTAL OCEAN NJ-CUMBERLAND NJ-DELAWARE PA- DELAWARE BEACHES DE-EASTERN MONMOUTH NJ-GLOUCESTER NJ-HUNTERDON NJ- INLAND SUSSEX DE-KENT MD-KENT DE-LEHIGH PA-MERCER NJ-MIDDLESEX NJ- MONROE PA-MONTGOMERY PA-MORRIS NJ-NEW CASTLE DE-NORTHAMPTON PA- NORTHWESTERN BURLINGTON NJ-OCEAN NJ-PHILADELPHIA PA-QUEEN ANNES MD- SALEM NJ-SOMERSET NJ-SOUTHEASTERN BURLINGTON NJ-SUSSEX NJ-TALBOT MD- WARREN NJ-WESTERN MONMOUTH NJ- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLENTOWN...ATLANTIC CITY...BETHLEHEM... CAMDEN...DOVER...NEW BRUNSWICK...NEWARK...PERTH AMBOY... PHILADELPHIA...READING...TRENTON...VINELAND AND WILMINGTON 345 AM EST FRI JAN 14 2005 A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE WEST HAD GENERATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WELL IN ADVANCE OF ITSELF EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS AHEAD OF THE LINE WERE GUSTING TO 35 TO 45 MPH. THE LINE WAS FROM NEAR MOUNT POCONO AND ALLENTOWN TO NEAR POTTSTOWN AND OXFORD IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, AND IT EXTENDED DOWN TO NEAR PORT DEPOSIT IN NORTHEAST MARYLAND AT 345 AM. THE LINE IS FORECAST TO MOVE TO NEAR THE DELAWARE RIVER AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE AT ABOUT 500 AM, AND THEN CROSS NEW JERSEY AND THE REMAINDER OF THE DELMARVA BY AROUND 730 AM. THE LINE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO STRENGTHEN SOMEWHAT AS IT MOVES EAST, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OVER THE DELMARVA. SOME TREES AND POWER LINES COULD SNAP. ALONG WITH THE WIND WILL COME RAIN. SOME OF THE RAIN WILL BE HEAVY AND SATURATE THE GROUND, AND A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, THE FAR NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DELMARVA PENINSULA AND NORTHERN AND WESTERN PORTIONS OF NEW JERSEY. MPD/KRUZDLO
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in North Carolina, January 14, 2005
- Flood in California, January 14 to 16, 2005
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Virginia, January 14, 2005
- Debris Flow in Pennsylvania, January 14, 2005
- Cold in Minnesota, January 14 to 16, 2005
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Virginia, January 14, 2005
- Cold in Montana, January 14, 2005
- Lightning Strike in Florida, January 14, 2005
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, January 14, 2005
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 14 to 16, 2005
- Flooding and Damaging Wind in Maryland, January 14, 2005
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, January 14 to 16, 2005
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, January 2005
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5434877.