{"id":118330,"date":"2026-02-19T19:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:29:08","slug":"video-shows-dangerous-rapid-moving-ice-jam-in-western-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118330\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows dangerous, rapid moving ice jam in Western Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe National Weather Service is warning warm-ups and impending rain may cause dangerous ice jams, especially on smaller creeks. Video from the Venango County Emergency Management Agency shows an ice jam in Oil City. See the video in the player above. For our area of Western Pennsylvania, rain through the night could cause problems and create flooding concerns along stretches that experience ice jams. A Flood Watch is in effect for everyone north and east of Allegheny County through Friday afternoon for the possibility of ice jam flooding on area rivers.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOIL CITY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service is warning warm-ups and impending rain may cause dangerous ice jams, especially on smaller creeks. <\/p>\n<p>Video from the Venango County Emergency Management Agency shows an ice jam in Oil City. <\/p>\n<p>See the video in the player above. <\/p>\n<p>For our area of Western Pennsylvania, rain through the night could cause problems and create flooding concerns along stretches that experience ice jams. <\/p>\n<p>A Flood Watch is in effect for everyone north and east of Allegheny County through Friday afternoon for the possibility of ice jam flooding on area rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"flood watch for counties north and east of pittsburgh through friday afternoon.\ufeff\" title=\"Flood Watch for counties north and east of Pittsburgh through Friday afternoon.\ufeff\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/02192026-flood-watch-69973a7fcd3c0.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Weather Service is warning warm-ups and impending rain may cause dangerous ice jams, especially on smaller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[894,2088,56145,56148,28165,56144,56151,14555,52656,56149,3687,1405,13269,21601,28,30,29,16109,56146,56150,56147,17538,30049,420,20182,1419],"class_list":{"0":"post-118330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-allegheny-county","9":"tag-area","10":"tag-creek-flooding","11":"tag-dangerous-ice-jam","12":"tag-east","13":"tag-flood-watch","14":"tag-flooding-concern","15":"tag-friday-afternoon","16":"tag-ice-jam","17":"tag-impending-rain","18":"tag-national-weather-service","19":"tag-night","20":"tag-north","21":"tag-oil-city","22":"tag-pennsylvania","23":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","24":"tag-pennsylvania-news","25":"tag-problem","26":"tag-rain-overnight","27":"tag-rapid-moving-ice-jam","28":"tag-river-flooding","29":"tag-stretch","30":"tag-venango-county","31":"tag-video","32":"tag-warm-up","33":"tag-western-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}