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Connecticut Flood Stories

420 first-hand accounts of flood events in Connecticut, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood$50K damage

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flood

Litchfield, CT · Jan 9, 2024

A strong storm system brought gusty winds, heavy rainfall, river flooding and a light accumulation of high elevation wet snow to northwestern Connecticut from the afternoon hours on January 9 into the early morning hours on January 10, 2024.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Litchfield, CT · Jul 10, 2023

A strong upper-level system brought widespread rounds of showers and thunderstorms to northwestern Connecticut on July 9-10, 2023. Northern and western portions of the county were hardest hit with rainfall amounts between 4 and 7 inches.

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Flood$10K damage

Litchfield, CT · Jul 10, 2023

A strong upper-level system brought widespread rounds of showers and thunderstorms to northwestern Connecticut on July 9-10, 2023. Northern and western portions of the county were hardest hit with rainfall amounts between 4 and 7 inches.

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Flash Flood

Litchfield, CT · Aug 18, 2024

A coastal low pressure system led to prolonged periods of heavy rainfall in northwest Connecticut on August 18, 2024. Rainfall totals were greatest in southern Litchfield County where total accumulations ranged from 1.75 to 8.80.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Tolland, CT · Aug 22, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood

Litchfield, CT · Aug 18, 2024

A coastal low pressure system led to prolonged periods of heavy rainfall in northwest Connecticut on August 18, 2024. Rainfall totals were greatest in southern Litchfield County where total accumulations ranged from 1.75 to 8.80.

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Flash Flood

Litchfield, CT · Aug 18, 2024

A coastal low pressure system led to prolonged periods of heavy rainfall in northwest Connecticut on August 18, 2024. Rainfall totals were greatest in southern Litchfield County where total accumulations ranged from 1.75 to 8.80.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Windham, CT · Jul 17, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Hartford, CT · Aug 22, 2021

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.

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Tropical Storm$20.0M damage

Windham, CT · Aug 28, 2011

Hurricane Irene formed east of the Caribbean island of Dominica, part of the Lesser Antilles region, on the afternoon of August 20. Irene moved through the Caribbean and up the east coast of the United States making landfall twice.

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Tropical Storm$20.0M damage

Hartford, CT · Aug 28, 2011

Hurricane Irene formed east of the Caribbean island of Dominica, part of the Lesser Antilles region, on the afternoon of August 20. Irene moved through the Caribbean and up the east coast of the United States making landfall twice.

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Tropical Storm$20.0M damage

Tolland, CT · Aug 28, 2011

Hurricane Irene formed east of the Caribbean island of Dominica, part of the Lesser Antilles region, on the afternoon of August 20. Irene moved through the Caribbean and up the east coast of the United States making landfall twice.

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Flash Flood

Windham, CT · Jul 17, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood

Windham, CT · Jul 17, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$60K damage

Hartford, CT · Jul 3, 2020

A robust backdoor cold front for early July standards in southern New England provided the forcing for some strong thunderstorms in northern Connecticut and western Massachusetts in the afternoon.

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Flood

Tolland, CT · Mar 7, 2011

An area of low pressure lifting through the eastern Mid-Atlantic and deepening through southeast New England into the Gulf of Maine resulted in an area of heavy rains with amounts ranging 2 to 5 inches across coastal and interior New England on top of melting snows.

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Flash Flood

Windham, CT · Jul 17, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood

Hartford, CT · Sep 2, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Hartford, CT · Jun 4, 2021

A surface low pressure trough moved into southern New England while a deamplifying short wave trough moved through aloft. This was enough to trigger a few thunderstorms, with locally heavy rainfall.

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