Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Shamokin, PA

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Bear Gap, PA, 4 miles northeast of Shamokin at 1,015 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 84°F and low of 61°F; January is the coolest, at 35°F and 19°F. September is the wettest at 5.2 inches of precipitation on average and February the driest at 2.5 inches; the year adds up to 48.2 inches over 89 days with at least a tenth of an inch. June to November, the hurricane season months, bring 55% of the year's precipitation (26.3 of 48.2 inches); the other six months are drier. August has brought the most of the 19 tropical systems that passed within 75 miles (8); a normal August there has highs of 80°F and 4.1 inches of precipitation. Highs reach 90°F on about 10 days a year, almost all from June to August. Lows fall below freezing on about 127 nights a year. Snowfall averages 33.5 inches a year, most of it in January. That 48.2 inches is more than at 112 of the 148 Pennsylvania stations used on this site (76%). Sunbury, 12 miles northwest, has its own station (Sunbury, PA): 43.6 inches a year, 4.6 less than here, and the same July average high, 84°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 80 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Shamokin: 75 thunderstorm wind reports and 5 flash floods. They killed 0 people and injured 4, and the NWS estimated $250,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on July 18, 2003. September has had the most flash floods, 2 of 5. Of the 788 Pennsylvania cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 71 have had fewer than Shamokin.

Flood insurance policyholders in Shamokin's ZIP code 17872 have filed 99 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $713,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Tropical Storm Lee in 2011: 35 claims (35% of all) and $469,000, then Flooding in 1996 with 20. 62% 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, 376 have fewer than Shamokin.