Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Douglassville, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Pottstown Limerick Airport, PA, 10 miles east of Douglassville at 291 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 64°F; January is the coolest, at 37°F and 22°F. September is the wettest at 4.8 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.6 inches; the year adds up to 45.3 inches over 78 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 54% of the year's precipitation (24.5 of 45.3 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 26 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (10); a normal September there has highs of 75°F and 4.8 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 17 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 111 nights a year. That 45.3 inches is more than at 80 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (54%). Birdsboro, 5 miles west, has its own station (Reading Spaatz Field, PA): 45.3 inches a year, the same as here, and a July average high of 87°F against 84°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 410 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Douglassville: 309 thunderstorm wind reports, 51 flash floods, 33 floods, 13 lightning strikes and 4 heavy rain events. They killed 4 people and injured 2, and the NWS estimated $26.6 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on November 2, 2018. July has had the most flash floods, 30 of 51. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 535 have had fewer than Douglassville.

Flood insurance policyholders in Douglassville's ZIP code 19518 have filed 121 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $2.6 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011: 19 claims (16% of all) and $355,000, then Not a named storm in 1979 with 17. The year with the most claims was 2006, with 43. 46% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 553 Pennsylvania cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 406 have fewer than Douglassville.