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HYDROLOGICAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA
131 PM EST FRI DEC 19 2025
..RIVER ICE STATEMENT
..WEST BRANCH RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 13:08:24 ID: 47
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, 2 MILE
UPSTREAM FROM CONFLUENCE WITH NORTH BRANCH.
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 150
FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE AND 20 FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE.
IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
PIECES OF SHEET ICE. REMARKS: THERE ARE LARGE STATIONARY
SHEETS OF ICE EXTENDING FROM SHORELINES, WITH SOME OPEN AREAS.
ALL ICE IS STATIONARY. NO MOVING SHEETS OR FRAZIL PANS.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 18:16:45 ID: 71
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA RIVER, MILTON-WEST
MILTON BRIDGE (SR 642) SOUTH TO LEWISBURG-MONTANDON BRIDGE (SR
45).
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 20
FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE AND 20 FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE. IN
GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 20 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: BORDER ICE EXTENDS OUT AT LEAST 20 FEET
FROM EACH SHORE. MOST OF THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH FRAZIL
PANS WITH OPEN WATER SHOWING IN ONLY ABOUT 20% (OR LESS IN
SOME AREAS) OF THE RIVER. JUST SOUTH OF THE LEWISBURG-MONTANDON
RIVER BRIDGE THERE IS NO OPEN WATER, PANS OF ICE ARE
BEGINNING TO FORM SOLID ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/15/2025 09:43:51 ID: 13
LOCATION: WEST BRANCH OF THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER AT
VETERANS BRIDGE IN LOCK HAVEN.
REPORT: THE UPSTREAM END OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS
NEAR ONE MILE WEST OF VETERANS BRIDGE. THE DOWNSTREAM END
OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS NEAR TO TIDLOW DAM, ONE QUARTER
MILE EAST OF BRIDGE. THE DATE OF COMPLETE ICE COVER WAS
12/12/2025.
..MAIN STEM RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/18/2025 08:36:09 ID: 8
LOCATION: 714 RIVER ROAD, DAUPHIN, PA.
REPORT: THE UPSTREAM END OF THE COMPLETE ICE COVER IS
NEAR AS FAR AS EYE CAN SEE. THE DOWNSTREAM END OF THE
COMPLETE ICE COVER IS NEAR VERY COVERED, SOME SMALL AREAS OPEN.
THE DATE OF COMPLETE ICE COVER WAS 12/18/2025.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 15:55:50 ID: 76
LOCATION: LOWER SUSQUEHANNA RIVER FROM MARIETTA
DOWNRIVER TO SAFE HARBOR DAM.
REPORT: THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH 90+% SHEET ICE FROM
SAFE HARBOR DAM UPRIVER TO JUST BELOW COLUMBIA. IN THE
VICINITY OF COLUMBIA AND WRIGHTSVILLE, THE RIVER IS 80% COVERED
WITH SHEET ICE. FROM ROUTE 30 UPRIVER TO JUST BELOW
MARIETTA, THE RIVER IS COVERED WITH 40% SHEET ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 09:00:43 ID: 20
LOCATION: COLUMBIA BOROUGH RIVER PARK/RTE.462 BRIDGE.
REPORT: IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 30 PERCENT OF THE
CHANNEL IS OPEN. THERE IS OPEN WATER, BUT IT IS CLEAR OF ANY
MOVING ICE. REMARKS: ICE AND SNOW COVER EXTENDING FROM RTE.
30 BRIDGE SOUTH TO ISLANDS BELOW COLUMBIA (2 MI.?) THERE
ARE NUMEROUS AREA OF OPEN WATER OBSERVED FROM EAST SHORE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/18/2025 13:39:03 ID: 3
LOCATION: SUSQUEHANA RIVER AT ACCOMAC, YORK COUNTY, PA
.
REPORT: SURFACE 98% OPEN WITH BORDER ICE.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/19/2025 07:55:27 ID: 27
LOCATION: 40.222927, -76.84594.
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 5
FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE AND NOT VIEWABLE FEET FROM THE EAST
SHORE. IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 50 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL
IS OPEN. THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE
CONSISTS OF PIECES OF SHEET ICE. REMARKS: APPROX. 5 FT. BORDER
ICE ALONG WEST SHORE, FOLLOWED BY FREE FLOWING CHANNEL.
APPEARS OTHER LARGE SECTION OF FREE FLOWING CHANNEL NEAR EAST
SHORE. REMAINDER OF CHANNEL (~50%) COVERED WITH SNOW-COVERED
ICE, APPEARS <2 INCHES? THICK, INCLUDING UPTURNED CHUNKS OF ICE.
SMALL PIECES OF SHEET ICE IN OPEN WATER. ADDITIONAL
OBSERVATIONS AT OTHER SITES: SITE - EAST SHORE - 5258-5398 RIVER
RD (FORT HUNTER), HARRISBURG, PA APPROX. 100-150FT OF THIN,
SNOW-COVERED BORDER ICE ALONG EAST SHORE. LARGE FREE FLOWING
CHANNEL BEYOND BORDER ICE. REMAINING PORTION OF RIVER TO
WEST SHORE COVERED WITH THIN, SNOW-COVERED ICE. ICE NOT
MOVING. SITE - EAST SHORE - PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE (STEELTON
BOAT LAUNCH), HIGHSPIRE, PA CHANNEL ~75% COVERED WITH THIN ICE
<1 INCH? THICK. SMALL POCKETS OF FREE FLOWING WATER. ICE NOT
MOVING. UPSTREAM OF TURNPIKE, MORE OF CHANNEL COVERED WITH
SNOW-COVERED ICE. SITE - WEST SHORE - 333 S FRONT ST
(DOCKSIDE WILLIES), WORMLEYSBURG, PA NEAR 100%, THIN,
SNOW-COVERED ICE COVER. ICE NOT MOVING.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/16/2025 08:46:26 ID: 1
LOCATION: SUNBURY BELOW DAM.
REPORT: THERE IS SOME BORDER ICE. THE ICE EXTENDS 20
FEET FROM THE EAST SHORE AND 30 FEET FROM THE WEST SHORE. IN
GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 90 PERCENT OF THE CHANNEL IS OPEN.
THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE ICE CONSISTS OF
FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: ABOVE THE DAM, OBSERVED SHEET ICE THAT
WAS LESS THAN 50% ACROSS.
DATE OF OBSERVATION: 12/17/2025 09:11:04 ID: 43
LOCATION: NORTH BRANCH SUSQUEHANNA AT DANVILLE.
REPORT: IN GENERAL, APPROXIMATELY 40 PERCENT OF THE
CHANNEL IS OPEN. THERE IS SOME ICE IN THE OPEN WATER. THE
ICE CONSISTS OF FRAZIL PANS. REMARKS: THERE IS SOME BORDER
ICE, BOTH SIDES. BRAZIL PANS HAVE EXPANDED IN SIZE.
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