420 first-hand accounts of flood events in Connecticut, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →On Sept. 1, Tropical Depression Ida tracked northeasward from the central Appalachians and arrived in southern New England late in the day as a remnant low.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in southwest Rhode Island around noon on August 22nd, then moved slowly northwestward and westward across northern Connecticut and weakened. Henri brought strong wind gusts and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →Extremely heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ida overspread southern Connecticut during the evening of September 1 and continued through the early morning hours of September 2.
Read the full account →A relatively stationary front meandered across southern New England on the 17th and 18th while low pressure slowly moved along the front. At upper levels, an upper low was moving slowly eastward from the Great Lakes.
Read the full account →A relatively stationary front meandered across southern New England on the 17th and 18th while low pressure slowly moved along the front. At upper levels, an upper low was moving slowly eastward from the Great Lakes.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Elsa with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, made landfall as a strong tropical storm on the panhandle of Florida on the morning of July 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Elsa with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph, made landfall as a strong tropical storm on the panhandle of Florida on the morning of July 7th.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Henri with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph made landfall on the Rhode Island coast, near Westerly, at 12:30pm EDT Sunday, August 22. Henri then continued turning to the west as the storm weakened over Connecticut becoming a depression by evening.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Henri with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph made landfall on the Rhode Island coast, near Westerly, at 12:30pm EDT Sunday, August 22. Henri then continued turning to the west as the storm weakened over Connecticut becoming a depression by evening.
Read the full account →Tropical storm Henri with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph made landfall on the Rhode Island coast, near Westerly, at 12:30pm EDT Sunday, August 22. Henri then continued turning to the west as the storm weakened over Connecticut becoming a depression by evening.
Read the full account →A stationary front was draped across the area on June 22nd under a warm and moist airmass. PWAT values near 1.8 to 2 inches along with MUCAPE values of 1000 to 1500 J/kg allowed for the development of thunderstorms with heavy rainfall on the order of 1-2 per hour rates.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hanna impacted Southern Connecticut, making landfall near the Nassau/Suffolk County border around 10:35 pm on the 6th. Storm total rainfall ranged from 2.76 inches at Groton Airport to 6.45 inches at New Canaan.
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