Monday, May 18, 2015

Flash Flood Warning Issued for Southwestern Schuylkill County

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL LEBANON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA... SOUTHWESTERN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY IN CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...

* UNTIL 930 PM EDT

* AT 635 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGES INDICATED TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS NORTHERN LEBANON AND SOUTHERN SCHUYLKILL COUNTY...FROM ANNVILLE...TO JONESTOWN AND PINE GROVE. OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN DURING THE PAST HOUR IN THIS SAME AREA...WITH OVER 4 INCHES FALLING NEAR AND JUST TO THE WEST OF PINE GROVE OVER THE PAST 3 HOURS. FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...FLOODED INTERSECTIONS ON AREA ROADS...AND FLOODED BASEMENTS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS EARLY THIS EVENING AS ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS TRACK SLOWLY EAST ACROSS THE WARMED AREA.



* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE... LEBANON...PALMYRA...ANNVILLE...MYERSTOWN...PLEASANT HILL...SAND HILL...NEWMANSTOWN...LEBANON SOUTH...PINE GROVE...CLEONA... TREMONT...AVON...RICHLAND...FREDERICKSBURG...FRIEDENSBURG... DONALDSON...LICKDALE...FORT INDIANTOWN GAP...HARPER TAVERN AND JONESTOWN.