Flood Warning
Issued by NWS Mt. Holly, NJ

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Flood Warning
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
306 PM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025

...The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a Flood
Warning for the following rivers in Pennsylvania...

  Brandywine Creek At Chadds Ford affecting Delaware and Chester
  Counties.

For the Brandywine Creek...including Chadds Ford...Minor flooding is
forecast.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Turn around...don`t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most
flood deaths occur in vehicles.

Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/phi.

The next statement will be issued late tonight at 315 AM EDT.

&&

PAC029-045-020715-
/O.NEW.KPHI.FL.W.0005.250702T0000Z-250702T2040Z/
/CDFP1.1.ER.250702T0454Z.250702T1200Z.250702T1440Z.NO/
306 PM EDT Tue Jul 1 2025

...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT FROM THIS EVENING TO TOMORROW AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.

* WHERE...Brandywine Creek at Chadds Ford.

* WHEN...From this evening to tomorrow afternoon.

* IMPACTS...At 8.0 feet, Open adjacent land next to the creek floods.
  At 10.0 feet, The intersections of Creek Road and Route 926 near
  Pocopson floods upstream of Chadds Ford.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
  - At 2:30 PM EDT Tuesday the stage was 5.8 feet.
  - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage
    just after midnight tonight to a crest of 10.2 feet tomorrow
    morning. It will then fall below flood stage late tomorrow
    morning.
  - Flood stage is 9.0 feet.
  - Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
    10.3 feet on 12/28/2023.
  - http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood

&&

                Fld   Observed           Forecasts (2 pm EDT)
Location        Stg   Stg   Day/Time     Wed   Thu   Fri

Brandywine Creek
Chadds Ford     9.0   5.8   Tue 2 pm EDT 7.5   3.9   3.0


&&

LAT...LON 3993 7561 3982 7553 3979 7560 3991 7567


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