PHILADELPHIA – The National Weather Service (NWS) in Mount Holly has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 11:30 PM EDT for Northern Philadelphia, Southeastern Bucks and Southeastern Montgomery counties in Pennsylvania, as well as Northwestern Burlington and Southwestern Mercer counties in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Heavy rainfall and immediate risks<\/p>\n
By the numbers<\/p>\n
At 7:30 PM EDT, NWS Doppler radar indicated severe thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the region. Estimates show between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain has already fallen.<\/p>\n
Meteorologists expect a continued rainfall rate of 1 to 2 inches per hour, with additional accumulations of 0.5 to 1.5 inches possible.<\/p>\n
High-risk areas and roadways<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
The hazard poses an immediate threat of flooding to small creeks, streams, urban zones, highways, streets, underpasses and low-lying drainage areas, according to the NWS.<\/p>\n
Locations expected to experience flash flooding include:<\/p>\n
Individuals attending the St. Michaels Fair in Levittown are advised to seek shelter.<\/p>\n
Major roadways heavily impacted by this warning include:<\/p>\n
Interstate 295 (NJ): Between mile markers 58 and 60<\/p>\n
Interstate 195 (NJ): Near mile marker 0<\/p>\n
Interstate 95 (PA): Between mile markers 30 and 40<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania Turnpike: Between mile markers 339 and 359<\/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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – The National Weather Service (NWS) in Mount Holly has issued a Flash Flood Warning until 11:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34362,3687,99803,69,71,70,63654,101838],"class_list":["post-236449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-flash-flood-warning","tag-national-weather-service","tag-nws-doppler-radar","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-severe-thunderstorms","tag-southeastern-bucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236449","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=236449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}