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Part of: Northampton County Area Flooding — July 2026 →
Flash Flood Warning issued July 28 at 10:55PM EDT until July 29 at 12:45AM EDT by NWS Upton NY
This is a severe-significance flash flood warning event affecting Essex, NJ; Hudson, NJ; Union, NJ; New York, NY; Richmond, NY, tracked from official feeds (NOAA / National Weather Service). We update this page as the situation develops.
- Type
- Flash Flood Warning
- Extent
- ≈ 122,268 acres
- Began
- To end
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Affected area map
The shaded area is the affected-area perimeter reported for this event by NOAA / National Weather Service (Essex, NJ; Hudson, NJ; Union, NJ; New York, NY; Richmond, NY), colored by hazard type. Pan and zoom to explore the map; when more than one observation exists, use the slider below to step through how the reported area changed.
Interactive affected-area map
Essex, NJ; Hudson, NJ; Union, NJ; New York, NY; Richmond, NY · ≈ 190 sq mi reported extent · Enable JavaScript to explore the map.
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Latest updates
Official updates and news coverage for this event, newest first — National Weather Service products, local storm reports, incident updates and press headlines. Official items are verbatim government text; news headlines link out to the original outlet.
- Storm report NWS PHI storm report
FLASH FLOOD — Bloomsbury, NJ
The Musconetcong River at Bloomsbury went into flood stage.
- Storm report NWS PHI storm report
FLASH FLOOD — Milford, NJ
Multiple videos and pictures sent in by fire department of ongoing flash flooding in Milford. Water rescues also ongoing in Milford. Time given in report.
- Storm report NWS PHI storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 1 SW Quakertown, PA
Ten residences on the 100 block of Washington Court in Quakertown Borough were evacuated due to basement flooding.
- Storm report NWS PHI storm report
FLASH FLOOD — 1 E Red Hill, PA
Water rescue reported near the intersection of Geryville Pike and W Hendricks Rd in Marlborough.
Show 6 earlier updates
- NWS PHI storm report Storm report
- NWS Upton NY Bulletin
- Montclair Local News News
Flooding Closes Upper Montclair Businesses as Storms Flood Streets
- WCAX News
- Syracuse.com News
Flood watch in place for Essex County until Wednesday evening due to persistent rain
- ABC7 New York News
Flood Watch for NYC and most of the Tri-State Tuesday for flash flooding, downpours into Wednesday
Updates are captured automatically from official and news sources, and may lag the live source. For the very latest, see NOAA / National Weather Service ↗.