Drought — Southern Centre, Pennsylvania

2020-09-22 to 2020-09-30 · Southern Centre, Pennsylvania

Event narrative

Portions of Centre County were experiencing severe drought conditions as noted on the United States Drought Monitor. The Madisonburg Waterworks and Haines-Aaronsburg Municipal Water Authority were under a mandatory water use restriction.

Wider weather episode

Drought conditions were observed across a wide area of central Pennsylvania in September. According to the United States Drought Monitor, by months end portions of 9 counties were experiencing severe drought conditions. These counties were: Potter, Tioga, Cameron, Clinton, Lycoming, Clearfield, Centre, Huntingdon, and Blair. Several public water suppliers were on mandatory and voluntary restrictions, and some agricultural impacts likely occurred.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 922188. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.