Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Levittown, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Neshaminy Falls, PA, 5 miles west of Levittown at 40 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 86°F and low of 65°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 22°F. July is the wettest at 4.9 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 3.1 inches; the year adds up to 50.8 inches over 82 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 53% of the year's precipitation (26.7 of 50.8 inches); the other six months are drier. September has brought the most of the 45 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (17); a normal September there has highs of 77°F and 4.7 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 27 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 120 nights a year. Snowfall averages 19.9 inches a year, most of it in January. That 50.8 inches is more than at 135 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (91%). Florence, NJ, 3 miles southeast, has its own station (Philadelphia/Mt Holly WFO, NJ): 46.0 inches a year, 4.8 less than here, and a July average high of 85°F against 86°F.

Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Burlington, Delaware River, NJ, 5 miles south, averaged 80°F in July and 37°F in January over 2021–2025. It averaged 80°F or warmer from July. Sea level at the Philadelphia tide gauge, 22 miles from Levittown, has risen 1.24 ± 0.04 inches per decade from 1900 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 12.4 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 73 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 633 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Levittown: 436 thunderstorm wind reports, 93 flash floods, 56 floods, 26 lightning strikes and 22 heavy rain events. They killed 3 people and injured 27, and the NWS estimated $46.8 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 70 mph, on August 27, 2003. July has had the most flash floods, 39 of 93. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 665 have had fewer than Levittown.

Flood insurance policyholders in Levittown's 4 ZIP codes have filed 214 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $3.0 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Hurricane Floyd in 1999: 17 claims (8% of all) and $253,000, then Hurricane Irene in 2011 with 16 and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011 with 10. The year with the most claims was 1996, with 36. 30% 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, 475 have fewer than Levittown.