{"id":236219,"date":"2026-07-05T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236219\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:56:08","slug":"flood-watch-starts-at-3-p-m-as-thunderstorms-forecast-for-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236219\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood watch starts at 3 p.m. as thunderstorms forecast for region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A flood watch starts at 3 p.m Sunday and runs until 10 p.m., covering most counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service Pittsburgh office said that \u201cexcessive runoff may result in flooding of creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some locations that may see flooding include Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Mount Lebanon, Bethel Park, Ross, McCandless, Monroeville, Cranberry, Moon, Greensburg, Indiana and Butler.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Flash Flood Watch will be in place today for areas that are expected to receive additional rainfall today. Most of these locations are areas that did receive heavy rainfall the day before and are expected to receive additional rounds today. Stay weather aware for any warnings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0nV9zZPffD\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/0nV9zZPffD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSPittsburgh\/status\/2073798293012836786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 5, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The weather service forecast thunderstorms throughout the region Sunday afternoon into the evening. In response, some outdoor events have been affected:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Monroeville\u2019s All-American Weekend Community Day, scheduled to run from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., has been canceled for today. The event, celebrating the municipality\u2019s 75th anniversary, Route 22\u2019s 100th anniversary and America\u2019s 250th birthday, will be rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022  The Neighborhood Flea at Schenley Plaza in Pittsburgh\u2019s Oakland neighborhood has been canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Storms on Saturday night knocked out for around 14,000 customers in the region. But Sunday, it\u2019s been mostly restored.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Duquesne Light reported about 465 customers without power in Allegheny County and 220 in Beaver County.<\/p>\n<p>West Penn Power reported about 850 customers without power in Westmoreland County, 520 in Indiana County, 500 in Washington County, 370 in Butler, and 230 in Armstrong County.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A flood watch starts at 3 p.m Sunday and runs until 10 p.m., covering most counties in Southwestern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-236219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236219","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=236219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}