generally exceed 100 mm (~4 inches, shown in dark green) with some parts of Miss. Rainfall from the northern Gulf of Mexico across eastern La., Miss., northwestern Ala., and central Tenn. Map created from NASA's TRMM satellite shows rainfall from tropical storm Lee. NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. By September 11, the death toll for Pennsylvania had climbed to seven. Roughly 100,000 people had been forced to evacuate, and the death toll stood at five. The paper reported that some towns suffered more from Tropical Storm Lee than they had from Hurricane Agnes in 1972.īy September 9, 2011, President Obama declared an emergency in New York and Pennsylvania, Agence France-Presse reported. The river stressed levees “beyond what they were built to withstand,” said The Philadelpha Inquirer. The levees withstood the river’s pressure in Harrisburg, but other communities along the banks of the Susquehanna were less fortunate. National Weather Service, the Susquehanna River fell rapidly between September 9 and 12, 2011, from major flood stage to below flood level. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service of the U.S. Loaded with sediment, the Susquehanna flows through the city, but appears confined within its embankments. ![]() ![]() The Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-color image on September 10. The rain swelled multiple rivers, including the Susquehanna.Īuthorities evacuated residents of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, then nervously watched the city’s 41-foot (12-meter) high levees, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Traveling northward from the Gulf of Mexico, Tropical Storm Lee carried heavy rain to the northeastern U.S. Lee's Heavy Rainfall Makes a Muddy Susquehanna in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The Susquehanna flows through the city and appears confined within its embankments.Ĭredit: NASA Earth Observatory/Jesse Allen, Robert Simmon/ NASA EO-1 team NASA’s EO-1 satellite captured this natural-color image on September 10 of the Susquehanna River, loaded with sediment.
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