Severe storms trigger 'life-threatening' Flash Flood Emergency in central Pennsylvania

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The National Weather Service bureau successful State College, Pennsylvania, issued a uncommon Flash Flood Emergency informing of "life-threatening flash flooding" successful bluish Lancaster County and parts of Lebanon County conscionable earlier 11 p.m. Monday nighttime done the early-morning hours of Tuesday, arsenic terrible storms brought dense rainfall to the area.

Video from Mountville, Pennsylvania, precocious Monday showed inundated section roads.

The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office reposted an NWS alert, which stated that section instrumentality enforcement had performed h2o rescues.

The NWS reported that betwixt 3 and 5 inches of rainfall has fallen since Monday, with astatine slightest 2 much inches of rainfall expected connected Tuesday.

MILLIONS OF 4TH OF JULY TRAVELERS FACE POTENTIAL STORM-RELATED DELAYS ACROSS US

  • Severe storms bring upwind   harm  and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025.

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    Severe storms bring upwind harm and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025. (Cumberland County Department of Public Safety/Facebook)

  • Severe storms bring upwind   harm  and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025.

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    Severe storms bring upwind harm and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025. (Cumberland County Department of Public Safety/Facebook)

  • Severe storms bring upwind   harm  and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025.

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    Severe storms bring upwind harm and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025. (Cumberland County Department of Public Safety/Facebook)

  • Severe storms bring upwind   harm  and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025.

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    Severe storms bring upwind harm and flooding to Carlisle, Pennsylvania Monday, June 30, 2025. (Cumberland County Department of Public Safety/Facebook)

Lancaster recorded 3.62 inches of rainfall connected Monday, making it the city's 10th-wettest time connected grounds and its eighth-wettest June day. 

The NWS highlighted low-water crossings and low-lying areas arsenic places that were peculiarly dangerous.

The State Department of Transportation reported that a downed histrion was blocking portion of State Route 30 successful Lancaster County, and flooding closed portion of State Route 72 adjacent Cornwall, immoderate 27 miles eastbound of Harrisburg, aboriginal Tuesday morning.

Another circular of severe weather is expected aboriginal Tuesday arsenic a cold front sweeps done the Northeast and mid-Atlantic

There was flash flooding earlier Monday successful Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Streets were covered with h2o and the little level of a parking store was flooded.

Cumberland County officials warned radical to enactment disconnected the roads successful a societal media post.

According to the FOX Forecast Center, this was the country's eighth flash flood exigency issued this past month.

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