PHILADELPHIA – The National Weather Service (NWS) in Mount Holly has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 10:45 PM EDT for Philadelphia, Delaware and Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania, alongside Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Heavy rainfall and immediate risks<\/p>\n
By the numbers<\/p>\n
At 7:51 PM EDT, NWS Doppler radar tracked heavy thunderstorms capable of producing torrential rainfall rates of 1.5 to 2 inches per hour.<\/p>\n
ReadyPhiladelphia, the City\u2019s Office of Emergency Management, warns that dangerous flash flooding is actively ongoing or imminent.<\/p>\n
Expected impacts include the flooding of small creeks, streams, urban areas, highways and low-lying underpasses.<\/p>\n
High-risk areas and roadways<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
The NWS identifies Philadelphia, Camden, Norristown, Gloucester City and Willingboro among the locations facing immediate flood risks.<\/p>\n
ReadyPhiladelphia issued an urgent directive stating that anyone at the Philadelphia Stadium complex or Lemon Hill must seek shelter immediately.<\/p>\n
Major roadways heavily impacted by this warning include:<\/p>\n
I-95 (PA): Mile markers 12 to 33<\/p>\n
I-76 (PA\/NJ): Mile markers 330 to 351 (PA) and 2 to 3 (NJ)<\/p>\n
I-476 & PA Turnpike \/ Northeast Extension<\/p>\n
Safety advice<\/p>\n
What you can do<\/p>\n
Officials from both agencies urge motorists to “Turn around, don’t drown,” noting that most flood fatalities occur in vehicles.<\/p>\n
For real-time updates and emergency preparedness, visit weather.gov\/phi<\/a> and phila.gov\/ready<\/a> or access the ASL information link<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Source<\/p>\n Information from the National Weather Service and ReadyPhiladelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – The National Weather Service (NWS) in Mount Holly has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 10:45…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99804,18186,99805,61365,99806,3687,99803,75139,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-230723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-counties-in-new-jersey","tag-counties-in-pennsylvania","tag-flood-risks","tag-heavy-rainfall","tag-heavy-thunderstorms","tag-national-weather-service","tag-nws-doppler-radar","tag-office-of-emergency-management","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230723","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=230723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}