iNWS Alert

Interactive NWS Alert

Radar valid at 130 am EDT, Aug 19th 2021

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BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Flash Flood Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
930 PM EDT Wed Aug 18 2021

The National Weather Service in Mount Holly has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for...
South Central Berks County in eastern Pennsylvania...

* Until 130 AM EDT.

* At 930 PM EDT, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated
thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between
1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of
1 to 1.5 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is
ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.

SOURCE...Radar and automated gauges.

IMPACT...Flooding of small creeks and streams, urban areas,
highways, streets, and underpasses as well as other
drainage and low lying areas.

* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Reading, Wyomissing, Sinking Spring, Laureldale, Wernersville,
Spring Ridge, Shillington, West Reading, Mount Penn, Mohnton,
Kenhorst, and St. Lawrence.

This includes the following highways...
Interstate 176 in Pennsylvania between mile markers 8 and 11.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around...don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most
flood deaths occur in vehicles.

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.

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LAT...LON 4031 7614 4040 7592 4034 7580 4021 7599
4022 7599 4025 7604 4027 7608 4028 7609
4029 7611 4029 7612

FLASH FLOOD...RADAR AND GAUGE INDICATED

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