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Floods

Virtually no state in the union has the challenges of flooding that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania does.? The following synopsis discusses the results for each county within?? the state of Pennsylvania regarding all flood events from 1950-2000.

Topography of Pennsylvania

The first table is a tabulation of the number of food events that were recorded for each county during the 1950-2000 time period.? This data was acquired through The National Climatic Data Center which provides tallied weather events per county ranging from tornadoes, lightning, hail, floods, wind, and the like. Regions of the state, annotated by *, were also included in the tally, as some flood events were only recorded this way.

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Table 1: The Number of Flood Events Per County

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Counties	# Flood Events
Adams	45
Allegheny	120
Armstrong	51
Beaver	36
Bedford	59
Berks	81
Blair	33
Bradford	46
Bucks	117
Butler	61
Cambria	49
Cameron	10
Carbon	42
*Central/Eastern PA	10
Centre	40
Chester	101
Clarion	35
Clearfield	44
Clinton	25
Columbia	26
Crawford	68
Cumberland	44
Dauphin	46
Delaware	71
*Eastern PA	84
Elk	21
Erie	50
Fayette	76
Forest	14
Franklin	54
Fulton	16
Greene	35
Huntingdon	45
Indiana	38
Jefferson	33
Juniata	19
Lackawanna	28
Lancaster	115
Lawrence	25
Lebanon	53
Lehigh	60
Luzerne	61
Lycoming	51
McKean	30
Mercer	35
*Monogahela River Basin	3
Mifflin	19
Monroe	44
Montgomery	116
Montour	26
Northampton	52
*Northeast PA	10
*Northern PA	1
Northumberland	33
Perry	25
Philadelphia	77
Pike	17
Potter	14
Schuylkill	58
Snyder	32
Somerset	55
*Southcentral PA	2
*Southeast PA	22
*Southwest PA	10
*Southern PA	1
*Statewide	20
Sullivan	17
Susquehanna	12
*Susquehanna River Basin	1
*Susquehanna Valley	5
Tioga	39
Union	39
Venango	42
Warren	30
Washington	64
Wayne	27
*Western PA	9
Westmoreland	105
Wyoming	15
York	69

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A? map of the Pennsylvania counties, each labeled with their respective county names.? Each county is outlined in a color akin to the number of flood events it has experienced (those that have been recorded).? In the top left of the image is a legend which denotes which color represents which groupings of flood events.? After the map had been completed, it became apparent that the southeastern region of the state is most prone to flood events.

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The following image displays how many times individual counties have been affected by floods.

This first chart provides a visual interpretation of the distribution of flood events per county.? The x-axis represents the individual counties, the y-axis is the number of flood events with intervals of 20.

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This second table is a tabulation of the archived flood events that were documented for various times, with no real consistency.? To account for this, I documented each reported time and then summed the events according to where they fell within their reporting hour.? Thus, this table is broken down into half hours and had the number of recorded flood events that fall within to its right.? The time of day with the highest number of recorded flood events is 19:00:00 (7:00pm) with 115 flood events; the time of day with the lowest is 3:30:00 (3:30am).? Therefore, the time of day most prone to flood events is early evening, and the time of day least prone to flooding is early morning.

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Table 2: This table represents the time of day that is most prone to flood events

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PA Flood Frequency by the Half Hour
0:00:00	56
0:30:00	31
1:00:00	47
1:30:00	22
2:00:00	48
2:30:00	16
3:00:00	34
3:30:00	8
4:00:00	60
4:30:00	17
5:00:00	33
5:30:00	16
6:00:00	50
6:30:00	15
7:00:00	38
7:30:00	29
8:00:00	66
8:30:00	15
9:00:00	59
9:30:00	20
10:00:00	63
10:30:00	24
11:00:00	36
11:30:00	24
12:00:00	43
12:30:00	26
13:00:00	78
13:30:00	40
14:00:00	73
14:30:00	63
15:00:00	92
15:30:00	51
16:00:00	99
16:30:00	57
17:00:00	89
17:30:00	66
18:00:00	83
18:30:00	48
19:00:00	115
19:30:00	60
20:00:00	91
20:30:00	51
21:00:00	55
21:30:00	21
22:00:00	67
22:30:00	24
23:00:00	40
23:30:00	25

* It should also be noted, that these numbers are based only upon those provided in the archived files.? Despite research, there were a significant number of flood events that did not have time of day recorded.

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This third table is based upon data provided in Table 2.? Within this table, the day is broken down into early morning, morning, afternoon and evening time periods; these times were based upon the general classification of times within the general public.? The time of day that has had the highest number of flood events is evening, with 603 total flood events.

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Table 3: This table represents the time of day that witnesses the most flood events

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Flood Frequency by Time of Day
Early Morning??(0:00:00-6:59:00)	453
Morning??????????? (7:00:00-11:59:00)	374
Afternoon???????? (12:00:0-16:59:00)	435
Evening??????????? (17:00:00-20:59:00)	603
Late Evening?? (21:00:00-23:59:00)	232

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This fourth table represents the time of year which is most prone to flooding within Pennsylvania. This table was created by simply adding the number of recorded events that occurred during each month, (more so by analyzing the date of a specific flood event). The month of June has the highest number of flood events with 186, though July and August have only a few less.? This can be confirmed by the fact that these months fall within the time of year where Pennsylvania receives its highest amounts of rainfall.? It should be noted, however, that the numbers are not exact representations as the flood events were originally recoded by county and more than one county can experience the same flood event at one particular time.? Therefore, duplicate flood events for one particular day were recorded as a single flood event.

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Table 4: This table represents the time of year which is most prone to flood event occurrence in Pennsylvania

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Time of Year Prone to Flooding
January	50
February	32
March	55
April	49
May	92
June	186
July	181
August	183
September	66
October	28
November	23
December	23

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The fifth table is a representation of Pennsylvania?s population per county and is included for reference for table 6. The most populated county is Philadelphia, with 1,491,812 residents, as of the 2001 state census.? The least populated county is Forest County, with 4,910 residents.? Comparing the number of flood events per county population aids in the evaluation of flood event frequencies and the risks to the residents.

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Table 5: This table consists of the county populations

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PA Counties	County Populations
Adams	92,997
Allegheny	1,270,612
Armstrong	72,101
Beaver	179,871
Bedford	49,899
Berks	377,679
Blair	128,391
Bradford	62,859
Bucks	605,379
Butler	176,593
Cambria	150,726
Cameron	5,866
Carbon	59,506
Centre	135,940
Chester	443,346
Clarion	41,478
Clearfield	83,167
Clinton	37,753
Columbia	64,152
Crawford	90,046
Cumberland	215,695
Dauphin	251,316
Delaware	551,158
Elk	34,666
Erie	279,636
Fayette	147,367
Forest	4,910
Franklin	130,506
Fulton	14,314
Greene	40,492
Huntingdon	45,632
Indiana	89,108
Jefferson	45,712
Juniata	22,877
Lackawanna	211,829
Lancaster	474,601
Lawrence	94,160
Lebanon	120,963
Lehigh	314,204
Luzerne	315,754
Lycoming	118,977
McKean	45,440
Mercer	119,682
Mifflin	46,554
Monroe	144,676
Montgomery	759,953
Montour	18,281
Northampton	269,779
Northumberland	93,662
Perry	43,787
Philadelphia	1,491,812
Pike	48,507
Potter	18,154
Schuylkill	149,176
Snyder	37,720
Somerset	79,553
Sullivan	6,532
Susquehanna	42,165
Tioga	41,621
Union	41,701
Venango	57,098
Warren	43,593
Washington	203,737
Wayne	48,392
Westmoreland	368,983
Wyoming	28,055
York	386,299

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This sixth table is the number of floods per person per county.? These numbers were reached by dividing the number of flood events for a particular county by that county?s population.? To keep the data uniform, three places after the decimal were used, which required rounding in some cases.? Philadelphia had the lowest number of flood events per person and Forest County had the highest number of flood events per person. It should be noted that Philadelphia County also has the largest county population while Forest also has the lowest county population.

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Table 6: This table is the number of flood events per person per county.

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PA Counties	Flood Events/Person/County
Adams	0.0005
Allegheny	0.0001
Armstrong	0.0007
Beaver	0.0002
Bedford	0.0012
Berks	0.0002
Blair	0.0003
Bradford	0.0007
Bucks	0.0002
Butler	0.0003
Cambria	0.0003
Cameron	0.0017
Carbon	0.0007
Centre	0.0003
Chester	0.0002
Clarion	0.0008
Clearfield	0.0005
Clinton	0.0007
Columbia	0.0004
Crawford	0.0008
Cumberland	0.0002
Dauphin	0.0002
Delaware	0.0001
Elk	0.0006
Erie	0.0002
Fayette	0.0005
Forest	0.0039
Franklin	0.0004
Fulton	0.0011
Greene	0.0009
Huntingdon	0.0009
Indiana	0.0004
Jefferson	0.0007
Juniata	0.0008
Lackawanna	0.0001
Lancaster	0.0002
Lawrence	0.0003
Lebanon	0.0004
Lehigh	0.0002
Luzerne	0.0002
Lycoming	0.0004
McKean	0.0007
Mercer	0.0003
Mifflin	0.0004
Monroe	0.0003
Montgomery	0.0002
Montour	0.0014
Northampton	0.0002
Northumberland	0.0004
Perry	0.0006
Philadelphia	0.00005
Pike	0.0004
Potter	0.0008
Schuylkill	0.0004
Snyder	0.0008
Somerset	0.0007
Sullivan	0.0026
Susquehanna	0.0003
Tioga	0.0009
Union	0.0009
Venango	0.0007
Warren	0.0007
Washington	0.0003
Wayne	0.0006
Westmoreland	0.0003
Wyoming	0.0005
York	0.0002

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