Flash Flood — Sullivan, Pennsylvania

2021-07-16 · near Estella, Sullivan, Pennsylvania

Event narrative

Flash flooding with water covering roads in Forks and Elkland Townships.

Wider weather episode

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the afternoon and early evening of July 16, 2021, in a very warm, humid airmass just south of a stalled frontal boundary that was draped across northern Pennsylvania. A few of these storms produced wind damage, including a particularly tall cell that produced winds estimated by a NWS Survey Team to be 85 to 95 mph in a wet microburst near Haneyville in northern Clinton County. Flash flooding from heavy rains also occurred in Northumberland and Sullivan Counties.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 971592. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.