Thursday, April 30, 2020

WEATHER ALERT: Flood Warning Issued for Schuylkill County

The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Warning for Schuylkill County.








Flood Warning for... 

Lancaster County in south central Pennsylvania...
Schuylkill County in central Pennsylvania...
Northumberland County in central Pennsylvania...
York County in south central Pennsylvania...
Dauphin County in south central Pennsylvania...
Eastern Lycoming County in north central Pennsylvania...
Montour County in central Pennsylvania...
Columbia County in central Pennsylvania...
Sullivan County in north central Pennsylvania...
Lebanon County in south central Pennsylvania...

* Until 1030 PM EDT.

* At 436 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain that will cause
flooding. Up to 1.5 inches of rain has already fallen, mainly
across the western regions of the Susquehanna Valley.

* Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Lancaster, Harrisburg, York, Lebanon, Lower Allen, Hanover,
Bloomsburg, Pottsville, Hershey, Ephrata, Colonial Park,
Weigelstown, Elizabethtown, Berwick, Columbia, Sunbury, Progress,
Lititz, Middletown and Millersville.

Additional rainfall amounts of 1.5 inches are possible in the warned
area. This will be especially the case across the eastern portion of
the Susquehanna Valley, as bands of heavy rain lift northward from
northern Maryland through the early evening hours.