Flood, Montour
- When
- July 1, 12:00 AM EST to 11:45 AM EST
- Where
- Montour County, Danville
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.028, -76.659 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flood in Pennsylvania, July 1, 2006
Heavy rain caused Susquehanna River at Danville to flood. 19 feet at 21:46 EST on the 28th, then fell back below flood stage at 11:45 EST on the 1st of July.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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- Fire, smoke and dust
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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 CTP wrote it up.
Heavy rain caused Susquehanna River at Danville to flood. The river exceeded flood stage of 20.0 feet at 03:45 EST on the 28th of June, crested at 28.19 feet at 21:46 EST on the 28th, then fell back below flood stage at 11:45 EST on the 1st of July. This StormData entry is a continuation of a June 2006 event.
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 State College, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 30, 8:54 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 8:54 PM EST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 954 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 .SHORT TERM /REST OF TONIGHT/... RADAR SHOWS LAST OF EVENING CONVECTION DYING OVER EASTERN PA AS RESPONSIBLE S/WV MOVES EAST OVR THE STATE. IR IMAGERY SHOWING CLEAR SKIES UPSTREAM...SO HAVE LOWERED OVERNIGHT SKY GRIDS TO NR ZERO. WILL ALSO ADD PATCHY FOG TO AREAS OF N MTNS AND MID SUSQ VALLEY THAT RECEIVED RAIN THIS EVENING. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 419 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006/ SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IN NY STATE WILL BRUSH NORTHEASTERN COUNTIES LATE THIS AFTERNOON SO HIGHEST POPS THERE. ACTIVITY WILL DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET. FOR SAT...WARM FRONT TO OUR WEST WILL HELP KICK OFF SCATTERED AFTERNOON TSTORMS...MAINLY IN THE WEST. TEMPS WILL BEGIN A WARMING TREND THAT WILL BRING VERY SUMMERLIKE READINGS FOR SUNDAY. COLD FRONT DROPPING ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES SUNDAY WILL ADD THE FOCUSING MECHANISM FOR SCATTERED TSTORMS AGAIN...WHICH WILL LINGER INTO SUN NIGHT AND MON AS COLD FRONT SLOWLY TRAVERSES CWA. POTENTIAL FOR A FEW WAVES OF TSTORMS DURING THIS PERIOD...BUT TIMING REMAINS DIFFICULT TO PINPOINT. RXR LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... COLD FRONT LINGERS ACROSS THE REGION MON INTO TUE BRINGING SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTORMS FOR THE HOLIDAY...BUT NOT A WASHOUT. FRONT GETS PUSHED SOUTH ON WED AND HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO BUILD IN AT THE SURFACE DECREASING PRECIP CHANCES...WITH NO RAIN MENTIONED FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. RXR AVIATION... VFR CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT CWA WITH SOME AREAS JUST GOING BKN WITH LOW CU. SOME SHOWERS AND DEVELOPED IN NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTH EAST PA AND ARE MOVING STEADILY TO THE SOUTH AND EAST. WITH NO REAL DYNAMICS TO SPEAK OF EXPECT RAIN TO DIE OUT AFTER SUNSET AND CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN MVFR OVERNIGHT. COULD BE SOME PATCHY FOG IN SOME AREAS AS LOW LEVEL MOISTURE STILL AROUND FROM RAIN EARLIER IN THE WEEK. ONDREJIK HYDROLOGY... JUST TWO RIVER FORECAST POINTS ON THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER /BLOOMSBURG AND DANVILLE/ REMAIN IN FLOOD AT THIS TIME...AND THE RIVER WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY FALL. BOTH POINTS WILL DROP BELOW FLOOD STAGE BY SUNDAY MORNING. RXR && .CTP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...FITZGERALD
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 5:09 AM EST, 18 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 609 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046- 049>053-056>059-063>066-011015- WARREN-MCKEAN-POTTER-ELK-CAMERON-NORTHERN CLINTON-CLEARFIELD- NORTHERN CENTRE-SOUTHERN CENTRE-CAMBRIA-BLAIR-HUNTINGDON-MIFFLIN- JUNIATA-SOMERSET-BEDFORD-FULTON-FRANKLIN-TIOGA-NORTHERN LYCOMING- SULLIVAN-SOUTHERN CLINTON-SOUTHERN LYCOMING-UNION-SNYDER-MONTOUR- NORTHUMBERLAND-COLUMBIA-PERRY-DAUPHIN-SCHUYLKILL-LEBANON- CUMBERLAND-ADAMS-YORK-LANCASTER- 609 AM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ...MINOR FLOODING WILL END ACROSS THE LOWER PORTION OF SWATARA CREEK AND ALONG THE LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BY TONIGHT...BUT WILL CONTINUE ON THE NORTH BRANCH OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT BLOOMSBURG AND DANVILLE INTO SATURDAY... ISOLATED LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM ACROSS NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA TODAY. BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SCATTERED...MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE STATE SUNDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT THUNDERSTORMS FORMING SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS LOWER MICHIGAN AND THE SOUTHERN PENINSULA OF ONTARIO COULD BECOME SEVERE AS THEY MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS...PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS...HAIL OR WIND DAMAGE FROM THUNDERSTORMS TO YOUR LOCAL NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE. LAMBERT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 6:20 PM EST, 5 hours 40 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 720 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 PAZ051>053-302345- COLUMBIA-MONTOUR-NORTHUMBERLAND- 720 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT COLUMBIA...MONTOUR AND NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTIES... AT 715 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR ELYSBURG AROUND 725 PM...KNOEBELS GROVE AROUND 730 PM...CATAWISSA AND BLOOMSBURG AROUND 735 PM AND NUMIDIA AROUND 740 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. FORECASTER:
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
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- Drought in Oklahoma, July 1 to 31, 2006
- Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 2006
- Hail and Strong Wind in Texas, July 1, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 1, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 1, 2006
- Tropical Storm in Guam, July 1, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, July 1, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 1, 2006
- Drought in New Mexico, July 1 to 31, 2006
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: 5527003.